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How Do We Stain Public Goods?
Isaac Ascher: The most profound question in political science is, why do we stain public goods? And how do we basely create an economy in a state that works? He says the best commentary on a this problem was actually given in ana american cartoon called south park. A kid wants to rurn a theme park and write a utopia where everyone gets paid for what they do - even if it's just fixing potholes. But as you start to createGovernments, he argues, organized groups end up looking like the state. We're not always stuck, because we have scaled in human history,. writes Ascher. "We've got, in many places, more