[dredmorbius]

The thought occurred to me some years ago that a key aspect of governmental institutions is their durability, particularly in the face of adversarial politics. Though the inefficiency of government services is quite often grossly exaggerated, there's much consideration which has to be made of the trade-offs between efficiency and durability.

This should be front-of-mind whenever someone proposes a start-up to address some long-standing social, societal, and/or political issues:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345506>

The other institutional forms which seem to tend toward durability are educational and religious institutions. Which often overlap considerably.

[giovannibonetti]

> The thought occurred to me some years ago that a key aspect of governmental institutions is their durability, particularly in the face of adversarial politics. Though the inefficiency of government services is quite often grossly exaggerated, there's much consideration which has to be made of the trade-offs between efficiency and durability.

Governmental institutions are durable even when they are detrimental to society, as long as the government has enough police and military might to prevent insurrections. The society must put up with grossly inefficient institutions simply because the government has a monopoly on some sectors.

[dredmorbius]

Durability, as with virtually any other characteristic or technique, has two edges. However where it is useful to have, it is indeed useful to have.

As to the other substance of your comment, I suspect you would benefit from reading this and its references: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37366751>