• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    managing that shared pool of resources is quite the job

    No, it really isn’t… people have done that for millenia.

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      1 year ago

      Not for the population numbers of modern nations, though. Managing a little town is one thing, millions of people is another.

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        1 year ago

        Not for the population numbers of modern nations, though.

        No-one is qualified to make decisions for that many people, Clyde - the limits of hierarchical power systems is pretty evident.

        Managing a little town is one thing, millions of people is another.

        Do you really think Biden himself decides which pothole in your street will be fixed today? Decentralizing power is not some arcane mystery.