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I always seem to arrive at "start over with an entirely new set of laws."

And moral framework. Don't forget the moral framework.

One of my favorites is "Voting is sacred, and it is sacrilegious to try to influence anyone else's vote in any way."

The combination of democracy and term limits means that iterative change should be the norm. But something isn’t working right.

Have you heard of the Sugarscape simulation? It can be used as an economic model showing interplay of wealth and taxation and inequality. I don't think I would recommend setting economic policy based on this simplistic model, but it's food for thought.

http://greenteapress.com/complexity/html/thinkcomplexity012....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarscape

What's not working right is people in office doing things to prevent iterative change.

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