"when you collectivize these decision-making processes, … they’re not neutral because … only a tiny minority which actually shows up to make their voice heard, but it slows everything down." says
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"as societies get richer, they begin emphasizing what he calls post-materialist values, these moral values, these identity values, values about fairness. I mean, a lot of people participate in politics in contravention of their direct material self-interest" says
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"on the left … a belief the government is always and everywhere captured by rich interests,… so you need to build all of these processes into the system to slow those interests down, to create spaces where they can be opposed, where the community can come together"
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"on the right, the constant attacks on any time you think you see government making a bad decision have also made it so … people who have learned to be cautious and to try to have a bulletproof, slow, overly measured process."
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"people want to tell heroic stories about themselves and so rent seeking comes to be redefined as something heroic. … it becomes harder and harder to break out of a rent-seeking equilibrium … because the equilibrium comes to be seen as virtuous."
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