Lockdowns have been more devastating to humankind than COVID-19 would have been unmitigated. Sources are everywhere for this. From mental health to the increase in global poverty, we will be paying for these lockdowns for decades if not generations. All the best to everyone out there who is trying to navigate their way out of this hole dug for us
By government officials creating anti-competitive regulations and taxes.
> And why should those that value it more than choice for the consumer value choice for the consumer more?
They should value choice for the consumer more because the total net benefit to society via GDP or any other economic indicator would be greater.
> And how would they even go about doing that?
Reducing barriers to entry for startups/small businesses and removing/reducing regulations that exert downward pressure on existing small businesses(Ex. minimum wage laws) are the first solutions that come to mind.
Education will continue to become more privatized. It is becoming more apparent to society that the education of future generations should not be left in the hands of the government
The story of Rome’s fall is both complicated and relatively straightforward yet it eerily resembles America:
The state became too big and chaotic;
the influence of money and private interests corrupted public institutions;
and social and economic inequalities became so large that citizens lost faith in the system altogether and gradually fell into the arms of tyrants and demagogues.
If all of that sounds familiar, well, that’s because the parallels to our current political moment are striking. Edward Watts, a historian at the University of California San Diego, has just published a new book titled Mortal Republic that carefully lays out what went wrong in ancient Rome — and how the lessons of its decline might help save fledgling republics like the United States today.
The story of Rome’s fall is both complicated and relatively straightforward yet it eerily resembles America:
The state became too big and chaotic;
the influence of money and private interests corrupted public institutions;
and social and economic inequalities became so large that citizens lost faith in the system altogether and gradually fell into the arms of tyrants and demagogues.
If all of that sounds familiar, well, that’s because the parallels to our current political moment are striking. Edward Watts, a historian at the University of California San Diego, has just published a new book titled Mortal Republic that carefully lays out what went wrong in ancient Rome — and how the lessons of its decline might help save fledgling republics like the United States today.
The story of Rome’s fall is both complicated and relatively straightforward yet it eerily resembles America:
The state became too big and chaotic;
the influence of money and private interests corrupted public institutions;
and social and economic inequalities became so large that citizens lost faith in the system altogether and gradually fell into the arms of tyrants and demagogues.
If all of that sounds familiar, well, that’s because the parallels to our current political moment are striking. Edward Watts, a historian at the University of California San Diego, has just published a new book titled Mortal Republic that carefully lays out what went wrong in ancient Rome — and how the lessons of its decline might help save fledgling republics like the United States today.