Self defending government policies:
Social security - people pay in so you can politically never end it, they will always demand their benefits
Second amendment - the thing you will be trying to take away will kill you before you succeed
What else
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First-past-the-post voting in a representative democracy.
The stable state of this system leaves voters to choose the lesser of two evils in each election, and gives elected officials no incentive to reform the voting system, as doing so would cost them their jobs.
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The welfare cliff
Once you get paid $1 too much, you lose all benefits, discouraging personal career advancement
Is intuit really this powerful? Seems fake.
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Seems like most of them. The stuff that continues to be useful ends up in regulatory capture mode where it can’t be abandoned, but can’t be improved through funding because of all the rent being extracted. Best examples there are education, “infrastructure”.
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