| > I’m super skeptical that small government would yield better results Note that I did not make this argument. I am merely pointing out that these big government agencies have allowed people to be poisoned for decades. Like I said in another comment: If people can't comprehend food labels, why hasn't the FDA come up with very basic labelling to ensure everyone gets it? Better yet, why don't we have serious restrictions on what companies can do to food? I mean, I am very much for freedom in the classical liberal/libertarian range. However, there is a need for responsible regulatory oversight in certain domains. The FDA and the Department of Education are responsible for not working hard to ensure that both our food system is safe and kids are educated adequately. Instead we have a sick population, massive healthcare costs and all the collateral damage that causes. > Is your point that government, big or small, won’t solve the problems we’re facing, so why waste the money? No. The point is that we ought to demand that the people we pay to look after food, healthcare and education actually do their jobs. As I said before, some of this (a lot of this?) is a direct consequence of the failure of the very agencies that are supposed to do this work for us. How to fix it? I'll quote a line from Fifth Element: Fire one million. Seriously (and not), the "ruling class", so to speak, needs to be shocked into understanding who they work for. I cannot speak for other nations, I just know that what is happening here in the US is terrible at so many levels I don't even know where to start. Actually, I can speak for other nations: Argentina. I am very familiar with life and politics there. What is interesting is that everything that is happening in the US happened in Argentina in various forms over the last four decades or so. And the results are very visible. Javier Milei is working hard to fix that. We'll see if the entrenched government machinery allows him to succeed. BTW, thanks for asking questions. I am so sick and tired of the typical HN ad-hominem approach that I rarely post any more. It's the fallacy of people who think they are smart, only to reveal the exact opposite when they speak. They also reveal just how hateful they are. |