re regulatory capture, it's not clear that the blame lies on companies. the regulators have the legal power. if they're getting captured, they are allowing themselves to be captured. in the case of FDA/CDC, they're not elected, so there's not the excuse of needing campaign funds
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fwiw, i don't think that "the market" is the appropriate place to solve this problem. pandemics come second only to defensive wars in terms of problems that should obviously be handled by the state. just skeptical of args that budget + private industry are reason for bad response
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The budget plus private capture states are symptoms of a broader American distrust of the administrative state which is a more subtle cultural force driving the weakness. Americans are natural reactionaries despite the country being founded on notionally kicking out a king.
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Basically if you want my take on the root cause, I think it lies in Americans liking CEOs and de facto monarchs more than faceless public servants. That’s why the office of the president morphed into a personality cult. That position has its merits, but comes with real costs.
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That makes sense. Trying to “shrink the state” through democratic means seems pretty doomed to get twisted into something crappy.
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