Not surprisingly, the very enemy of progress in any form is a lack of competition. DC and Brussels are excellent examples.Parodite wrote:Yes I agree esp. with your last observation. The US two-party system and the vested $interest groups that control the show gives very little hope that alternative ideas can emerge and compete freely before elections and be tested after elections as an implemented policy. On the other hand.. thanks to Trumpy and Berning at least some of the major issues now have a big spotlight on them that the vested forces would have rather kept under the carpet if it were only up to them. And since the only constant in life is change... it is not possible not to be hopefulSimple Minded wrote:On a practical level mincome is merely govt. downsizing or outsourcing to increase efficiency that the customer demands. Happens in private institutions and families all the time. Getting the buy in of everyone (the proper split of us and them) is tough in the public sector. Competition is needed so the customer can opt out to increase pressure on suppliers. Doesn't seem to exist in two party centralized system.
50 state govts in the US and individual national govts in Europe seem to be a more natural, less forced order.
Humans seem to need choices, even in their deities. Yet contradictorily, they want to belong to the biggest, most popular herd. Even if that herd practices an ideology that is self-destructive, or contrary to one's best interests.
Easy to be optimistic for the thinking individual, not so much for the lemming who is 50th from the front in a line of 1,000s.
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