Re @slatestarcodex 's "Seeing like a State" review: family friend got involved once in planning tax policy for new, poor East African nation
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But my friend pointed out they had no way to track income in the country,most people didn't have monetary income,tariffs much more practical
whoa it's like "cheap information" needs to get added as another letter to WEIRD
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"if your country is already thoroughly modern this stuff works like aces"
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tbh I'm sure a lot of the stuff thoroughly modern countries do is just cargo culting itself
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