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Government beyond neighborhood scale is 90% corner cases. Defaults need low governance. Eg. If everybody drove carefully and there was universal healthcare you could get by with low traffic regulation. Accidents would still occur, but fault-based governance would be unnecessary.
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But...but...drive carefully and universal healthcare are *enormously* larger governance cases than traffic regulation. Even in a village-state like Denmark.
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Thought experiment. Drive carefully is not actually achievable at a scale above Denmark, and universal healthcare not as a functional thing, merely as a way to avoid litigation as an end-game in traffic accidents.
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OK. But if litigation as end-game were actually the greater problem, system would probably provide for it, no? Or, better: if cost of solving problem was < problem's actual cost. Persistent error I see w/startup clients
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It often has if you poke deeply, which most folks won't/don't. It tends to be my starting assumption. But this is not some kind of libertarian/Modernist fantasy. The reality is of course woolier/messier/redundant/inefficient (for good, ill, or just by chance, usually all 3).
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