Name 5 Things the Government Does Well
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7 years ago in #question by cryptoctopus (74)
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Oppress, depress, suppress, repress and regress.
Haha!
I'm not sure we can say it's regressing. It's doing what it was meant to do ruling and overtaking.
Well we are certainly not moving forward. Not in terms of standard of living. Not anymore... Worse food, less clean water supply, poorer education, more impoverishment. Some western countries seem to be slowly becoming third world countries. So yes, I'd have to say regress fits on that list.
I get your point and I agree but I meant to say the government ain't regressing, regression for the society at large is what is the goal of government. I guess it's just an unimportant precision where it's not the government that is regressing but the situation of it's people.
I get it. The government is good at causing regression, but shit at regressing itself, because it is constantly looking to expand, in order to cause more regression. Lol.
Exactly.
Inspires us to believe we can manage ourselves better
Show us how powerful they can be even when we disagree
Motivates us to create systems to get rid of government
Provide a great example of a what well meaning but clueless looks like
Gives the appearance they will protect us against the bad guys
Small test really interesting! To a positive question, 99% of responses are negative. Everyone sees the black dot on a white sheet and yet 99.9999 ...% of the sheet is white!
Are we deviant? Do we have the right to be positive?
This is not a survey and this test has no scientific value but several people will make the following conclusions:
99% of those who answered the question believe that governments do nothing well.
99% of Steemit users believe governments are doing nothing well.
99% of citizens believe that governments do nothing well.
But others will say that 99% of respondents are dissatisfied and that they represent less than 1% of Steemit users. Thus, 99% think that governments do well.
Oops! What is our behavior towards our loved ones?
Has Stemit demonstrated that it is a better government?
Https://steemit.com/steem/@snowflake/guardian-of-the-steem-universe-a-different-perspective-on-the-role-of-whales-within-steem-ecosystem-part-2
I think you have it backwards. The tiny black dot on the piece of paper is representative of the usefulness of governments. The surrounding whiteness is the negative aspects of government.
Sure, this could be a matter of perception. But, I think anyone that takes the time to look into the efficacy--or lack thereof-- of governments is going to arrive at the same conclusion. At least by today's standards.
Better than the private sector? Run programs for the common good that are not profitable but needed by people who fall on the wrong side of the usefulness bell curve.
"Does well" is not a particularly useful descriptor because it is up to someone's opinion as to what well means. Your definition of does well and my definition could be quite different from each other.
Government usefulness is a tricky subject because on one hand if people were all rational it would not be necessary at all. However many people refuse to work under a logical framework. Shrugs
You are the only one in the thread who tried to come up with something positive as an answer. Kinda funny. :D
Well the prompt was to name things the government does well. There are things. It's easy to list things governments fail at, but its not hard to reason logically to see why they exist.
That's true. Many services are necessary and would not be there without a government to fund them.
lie
steal
incarcerate
kill
expand
Not necessarily in that order.
Coerce
Steal
Kill
Enslave
Deceive
bureaucracy
waste
theft
murder
deceit
haha, tough to come up with anything positive. They can't even build good roads. ;) For the sake of my perception of this post, I'll consider government to be synonymous with the state. The only reason I bring that up is because I do think it is possible for the government (as merely administration) to do something positive well. Some countries have shown this to some degree, such as Switzerland and Luxembourg. It is impossible for the state (coercive element) to do something positive well. The US (among others) is proving this point quite aptly.
Extort
Corrupt
Warmonger
Coerce
Terrorize
Create jobs by legislating burdensome regulation and compliance reporting requirements that increase not only taxes to we pay for those jobs but also the cost of goods and services we pay for.
I think it was estimated that Vanderbilt university pays something like $11k per year per student for compliance & reporting, some of which has nothing to do with education or college at all.
ACA created new medical reporting codes that require even further breakdown of diagnosis codes. Did you get that sunburn in your back yard or on a boat? Scratched by a bird? Be ready to tell the doctor exactly what kind of bird. Did you get hurt at a Rock and Roll concert or a Classical performance? Did you get hit by an instrument? Was that a brass instrument or string?
Idiocy.
Lies
War
Corruption
Theft
Waste
But really, we only get five? Next time go for five hundred ;)