alt Hacker NewsThe Dutch figured out how to do collective dike maintenance a millennium ago without inventing mythical super government. Collective rules worked just fine.
I encourage you to reflect on this bias. I suspect you're taking the American state as a template, and extrapolating its incompetence. The history is filled with different ideas - some of them far older than America itself.
Hell, I'd call America a place so naturally rich, it's practically the case study how much dysfunction can be papered over with money instead of statecraft.
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Yes, that would totally work while countries like China, Russia, North Korea exist. They could all have a group hug and sing Kumbaya straight afterwards.
How many individual people were involved in collective dike maintenance, so we know the model scales? 100 million? 200 million?
Not to mention that this bias is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Thanks to all the ideologues that get elected to government by insiting that government can't work, surprise, surprise, government doesn't work.
European statecraft has led to a massive bureaucratic blob whose best and brightest just go to America.
And how did the Dutch collect the toll and who received the tax benefits for it?
I’m interested in understanding your comparison here and how it would be applicable to space and how you envision it working based on your comparison.