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Enabling people to make individual decisions, ensures the soundest decisions to be made in aggregate. (1) This is not unlike the spontaneous order occuring in all natural systems.

This process can be subverted, but only to great detriment of the whole.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNQ3GccCAI0

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As a biologist I really like the idea and feel it to be true. I'd say it is even a guiding principle in my life. But most people don't like it as it is very Ayn Rand/Margaret Thatcher-ish: "There is no such thing as society!", "Society is made up of individuals exercising their rational self-interest."

I think the original purpose of g̶o̶v̶e̶r̶n̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ *parliament was to discuss problems thoroughly (3) before deciding what to do.

Sadly this process is subverted by party tribalism and bills written in advance by lobbyists.

3) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uHYYA32CKgKT3FagE/hold-off-o...

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Assyriologists would tell you that the original purpose of government was to account for and distribute wages to laborers on major construction projects.

One benefits of startup culture is someone can think say I think the world needs a supersonic jet and go ahead and try to make it happen without government planning, a bit like the beavers and their dam. You can like that without being a Rand nut.

You can like Rand without being a nut.

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