"Liberaltarian" opinions like this are appealing because they say "regardless of your values on wealth redistribution, surely we can all agree that at any given level of redistribution, method X is more economically efficient than Y?"https://twitter.com/StephanAJensen/status/1102691349881589761 …
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Examples include "social safety nets are better than labor market restrictions", "UBI is better than in-kind transfers", "simpler tax codes are better than complex ones", etc.
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But if they're pure win-wins, why don't we have them already? Because they work by reducing the discretion of gov'ts and oligopolies to play favorites. They're not friendly to logrolling, lobbying, spoils, etc.
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This is the stuff @robinhanson has been talking about, and it's similar to public choice theory. There is active optimization towards policies that are *lose-lose* at the population level.
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