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by batushka5 494 days ago
As an european I envy so much this great purge - here entire castes build on feeding from grant money, perpetuating DEI, green transition, gender studies etc. Overnight nothing-scientist/ NGO profesionals carreers are over, like in those "AI stole my job" videos. Sadly EU still holds strong perpetuating this grant bottom feeding, poisoning academia and discrediting NGOs.
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causal 494 days ago
I'd like to offer: both can be bad. Any large system is going to have a lot of inefficiencies, and something to dislike for everyone. But its overall function can still be important enough that taking a sledge hammer to the whole thing is still much more harmful than whatever motivated picking up the hammer.
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dennis_jeeves2 494 days ago
>Any large system is going to have a lot of inefficiencies

Hence one needs the free market. The govt. typically lack the checks and balance that the free market automatically provides hence it _always_ results in bloat.

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causal 494 days ago
Right, understanding that the government itself creates the space for the free market to operate, so any tinkering with it ought to be done carefully. New companies will replace old ones that die- and this is good. Failed states can and do happen, and it would be hubris to think it couldn't happen here.
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dennis_jeeves2 494 days ago
>Right, understanding that the government itself creates the space for the free market to operate,

In the US the gov has become too big so that it cannot support a free market. ( there are some estimates that say 60% of our income goes into taxes of various forms). More over govt are the reason for a no freemarket. For me Govt is synonymous with the mafia, a more polished, legalized version ( yes, we differ here, so we can leave it at that)

>so any tinkering with it ought to be done carefully.

Most of the govt can be removed and no one will notice except govt employees.

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causal 494 days ago
I suspect you greatly underestimate how much your life has been protected by the government you wish to eviscerate, but I suppose we shall see
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dennis_jeeves2 494 days ago
No I do not think so- America owes its success to the common Americans, not to the govt. Personal question: Have you lived/worked at length in any third world country?
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