First Female FEMA Administrator Questioned Over Maui Disaster and Lack of Assistance: Blames Victims.
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I dunno it's not that governments are incapable of paving roads. Some do it well like my little city. Because the government is very close to the people. There isn't a whole separate political class.
It is my broad opinion that there are a lot of systems that can work when u have relatively honest if self interested people.
All governments are capable of shit. In fact, part of the problem with long-term authoritarian states is that if the government actually masters and monopolizes competency in specific fields, then it becomes actually impossible to remove the government from those fields because people are totally dependent on them.
However, governments only tend to be competent at specific things they care about. Soviet rocket engines are bad ass. Soviet cars? Oof. Chinese electronics? Very good. Chinese healthcare? Oh god. What you can quickly end up with is a government that has a ton of control over things, but is jacked up with most of them.
Worse, if it goes on too long, they start to loose competence as the government jobs become make-work programs going decade after decade. British rail in 1850? Stellar. British rail in 2023? Total disaster.
You do need a governance class to help manage a large society, if that's what you are going to do. But that class will quickly turn into an aristocracy that will ruin society as it cares less and less about proper governance (especially if it starts to inbreed).
I have this idea of reversing the powers. Like what if the city you lived in took most of your money and provided most of your services? They're not all good governments but 2 things: 1) easier to vote with your feet and 2) I believe the governments that represent fewer people are more responsive.
In a way they kind of do the latter. I drive far more on city roads than the highway. Go to the city park more than the state forest. They pay the police, etc. So they don't get most of my money, but they may do the most