Strongly agree. USG bureaucracy in WWII was quite good. Old unions had competent people as leaders, not just grifter hacks. 1980s measurement revolution plus culture of rewarding for performance strip mined low value institutions of high quality people.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1208068271628541953 …
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rephrase: the dollar yield of an institution doesn't necessarily track its value to society clearly the functions served by cops and teachers are useful to society, even if optimal institutions for those functions would look very different than we have now
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(I guess classical economics would call this a positive externality and solve it with a subsidy, but that seems to inevitably become a giant graft pit)
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