thinking about society rn consider the following
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nonlocal governments however struggle here. most individuals mean nothing to them until they stop paying taxes or become Inconvenient, and their main mode of interfacing is rigid bureaucracy do you enjoy calls from the FBI or the IRS?
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so basically a major problem of government is cultivating a relationship with its citizens that is Cooperative to avoid these contracting problems
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governments can do this by not imposing hateful terms, by keeping its operation as local as possible, by keeping the contract space predictable and limited, and by cultivating a sense of shared intetest and identity
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noting all of this it seems like (i) representative governments probably have advantages over nonrepresentative, (ii) the US really has probably fucked up by nationalizing and bureaucratizing everything instead of keeping most operation small scale and devolved to localities
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tldr today im mad about the twentieth century thanks for listening
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My lease explicitly states I’m not allowed to do anything which lowers the value of the property. Which seems ridiculous but might help in a legal battle, idk
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Bad firms don't coordinate to their managers, which is how after I moved out of one place, I got sent to collections by the national ownership company before the site manager had sent out the final bill.
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i think of "trust" (or whatever word you want to use for this thing that was lost [which is now at Record Lows, according to The Polls]) as like the synovial fluid between the bones of society, preventing us from grinding ourselves to powder, bone gnashing directly against bone.
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i think relevant although its not obvious to me that likely alternatives to libertarian modes actually do better with the problems she describes. need to mull that more
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