If you know some public good is very underfunded, but you think the main current entity trying to provide it is doing a bad job, pushing for its elimination is tempting but very dangerous. A more productive path is to leave the existing group alone but also support an alternative
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I think this makes it so other solutions must be completely different and 10X better at solving the problem. I wish we had more optionality but it’s hard to get where everyone is fighting for 1st place. we get spikes going up and to the right, rather than trees of innovation.
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The innovators dilemma, institutional edition
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Aim not to smash the powerful mechanism, but to nurture and expand a niche alternative that gains legitimacy and eventually transforms the character of the ecosystem à lahttp://jacobinmag.com/2015/12/erik-olin-wright-real-utopias-anticapitalism-democracy/ …
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For example, I'm interested in building educational tools. TAM would be gigantic without public education.
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Yes, and there are also internal institutional difficulties, in that parts of gov that interface with current entity and parts that interface with the new entity will now be in competition. The idea ‘we are quietly moving support from a to b’ is hard to make legible across gov.
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Or worse, the existing mechanism is captured by a political actor and then spreads misleading information that leads to a cascade of bad decisions, causing more harm than if it never existed at all.
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