Nassim N. Taleb: Everything these idiots, frauds, and assholes don't understand
Decoding the Gurus
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Is Localism the Answer to the Global Pandemic?
i haven't noticed that local authorities are much better at dealing with the crisis than national bodies. It seems very strange to preas america's federalist model in response to the cronovaris. You simply don't always have better outcomes just because the decision making is happening on a local level. An example, it springs to mind, is in local l we have three teers of government here in australia. At a local level, some time ago, they stopped fluridating the water because they thought it was poisoning people. And we have quite bad dental performance in the area as a result. That only happened because it's a backwater kind of town and the
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