Any VCs here want to fund this idea??
(Ah yes, states, the laboratories of democracy in our federalist system.)
> The phrase "laboratories of democracy" is often attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. In a dissenting opinion in the case of New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932), Brandeis wrote:
> "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."
(the previous two paragraphs via ChatGPT 3.5., verified by me)
I would like to add the preceding sentence in the above quote from Brandeis’ dissent because it gives more context:
> “To stay experimentation in things social and economic is a grave responsibility. Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.”
In Finland this is solved by giving the person reserving the taxi a two-digit code that you repeat to the driver to confirm that you were the requester. It works great unless you're so loaded you can't remember a two-digit number.