"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Government Corruptness Index
So, we thought we’d put together some of the data about where governments are fighting new services that consumers generally like: Tesla, Uber, and Airbnb. By Graham's theory, they provide insight into the corruptness of various locales in the US.
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Technology advances at a pace enabled by Moore's Law and human imagination. Government advances at a pace dictated by the weight of the VIP carried in the palanquin.
It is inevitable that, sooner or later, a technology will emerge that will make government itself obsolete. And in resisting that technology, it will turn against itself all the people who yearn for progress, who will finally begin to question just why, exactly, it has recently become so difficult to get anything worth having.