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 Originally Posted by CoccoBill
When the global economy was essentially agriculture, economic growth was achieved by getting more land, and it was a zero sum game.
I'd say from the beginning of time economies have been positive sum. The agricultural economy you describe is positive, including all sorts of stuff from selectively breeding crops to changing community organizational structure.
Though your point is taken because as you further described, it does seem to be that war used to be more productive than it now is.
I do think we need governments for the foreseeable future, in one form or another. Wuf's sort of suggested replacing them with churches, I'm not so sure about that.
I've suggested that churches are one way private sectors adjust for things when governments don't crowd the space.
However, I don't see what we need close to 200 governments for, maybe 1 or 3 would be enough.
Do you think this in terms that there shouldn't be any localization of government? What I'm getting at is that technically the US isn't just one government but many many governments that include the federal, state, city, and local governments. It certainly seems that they have different domains where they do better (or worse). For example, education policy is much more accessible to voters when the curriculum comes from local government than from the federal government.
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