Although, if anything, that post about healthcare costs is perhaps a better summary of my current politics than any.
Efficiency - in government, in the private sector, anywhere - doesn’t just mean some nice bonus that lets rich people we don’t care about have more sports cars.
As efficiency and production increase, you stop having to triage. If one unit of sovereign services costs $1.00 to deliver and you have $1.00, then you can purchase only one unit. If one unit of sovereign services costs $0.50, then you can purchase two.
If there were two of you and you collectively only had one dollar to spend, then in the first case you have to fight about who gets that one unit of sovereign services, and in the second case you don’t.
The adequate planning of cities and efficient distribution of resources are absolutely vital. Surplus regulations don’t just have a cost in corporate bureaucrat annoyance, but in bus stops.
Private property, government regulations, wealth redistribution… these are tools, not moral imperatives.
Now I know many people would say “sure, but my politics is about using them correctly as tools,” and for some people that’s true. But a lot of the time that’s not what we see in practice.
So the great question, I think, is how we can make systems of governance better, to promote better and more accurate approaches to policy that more effectively accomplish what will benefit people.
