Politics: Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians
- Democrats
- Get right
- The game is rigged.
- Minimum wage is a poverty trap
- Company execs do not work 1,000,000 million times harder than their janitors but they get paid that
- Get wrong
- Taking money from people (via taxes) with no regard for fairness or results only makes things worse
- 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions'
- Republicans
- Get right
- Policies based on physical world realities instead of wishful thinking
- Get wrong
- Capitalism without regard to society/ethics is evil
- How many people has tobacco killed ?
- Capitalism has creeps cold calling senior citizens trying to talk them out of their savings
- Get right
- Elegant simple clean political philosophy
- Leans toward anarchy
- If you think Anarchy works a great example of that is Afghanistan. Please go there and see how great it works.
- Get wrong
- Unfortunately it is too simple.
- It does not deal with the reality of large groups of people, IE 'Political Power'.
- Similar to nuclear energy political power or the power of the mob needs to be understood and carefully managed.
- The truth is that political power (power of large group of people) is even more dangerous and complex and unpredictable than nuclear energy.
- As such the rules for managing it should be very robust and well designed.
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