[testpostpls]

The US has 60x the population of Norway on 25x the land.

Honest question: given what you know about politics in Norway, do you personally believe Norway’s complexity reduction through agreement on common standards can scale to a country the size of the US?

Could 60 Norways mutually agree on common standards?

[geezerjay]

The US is a federation of 50 states and in theory is highly liberal. Therefore at most your example should scale at the state level. As most states have fewer inhabitants than Norway then I don't see your point.

[JBlue42]

People always bring out the population or area size of the US as an excuse against why we can't try to do better.

[citrablue]

I think people bring out the population or area size in order to explain where facile comparisons fall down. Scale matters.

[geezerjay]

This fictional scaling problem makes as much sense as correlating the effect of some public policies on the height of the political leader or average temperature. It's a silly scapegoat that makes no sense at all.

[testpostpls]

There’s no point for you to see. I asked a question: whether the original poster could see the political climate in Norway realistically scaling.

Maybe they’ve figured out something we in the US haven’t.

[geezerjay]

The case for this hypothetical scaling problem is baseless and absurd. It's a silly scapegoat. That's it.