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by lesuorac 496 days ago
> The founding fathers didn't have the math to understand game theory, nash equilibria, and the tragedy of the commons.

I mean they had something even better. They added a process to amend the constitution so that as issue arose it could be fixed.

However there's no amount of game theory that will get around the fact politicians won't fix a system they see as working; they got correctly elected after all!