It’s sometimes easy to forget that institutions often arise as solutions to problems.
For example:
• Journalism uncovers and spreads information that matters to people that would otherwise be hard for them to know.
• Education teaches people what they'll need to know that they won't easily learn on their own.
• Science increases our understanding of (and control over) reality.
• Civil Courts right wrongs between people.
• Finance (among other things) e...
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Low-Hanging Fruit Policies That Don’t Get Implemented
Some policies seem like low-hanging fruit to benefit the US and its people, yet don’t get implemented. Why? It’s probably a combination of:
• political wars that pull things back and forth instead of moving forward
• voter confusion
• voters prioritizing other topics
• collective action problems
• they’re blocked by the few who are made worse off by them
• they are bad ideas, I’m wrong about them, or people’s values around them differ too much
Regardless of the reason, here...
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