You're making the claim that when i clump my smallness with people like me, my ethnic group, my so called nationality, we can solve our problems in certain dimensions more easily than if i'm trying to negotiate across roommates. Now, there's two aspects of scale here. One is that in certain dimensions, you can expand on this. And and itis the same thing with with lot of, a lot of countries. So that t idea of the state is moderate. State as a person, as a soran entity,. That kind of hegalian notion of refucation of, you know, state. It's almost like a person, and a new personan
A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to support a heavier body, the bigger a nation gets, the harder to curate an identity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about scale and governance with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Taleb sings the virtues of smaller relative to larger and decentralized as much as possible relative to centralized. Along the way, he provides a framework for Russia's war against Ukraine and explains why the United States has thrived despite its size and scope.