• Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    It seems like a majority of these countries have a much smaller population and economy. It’s a good point though. It makes me think we could achieve it, but it would require effort at the level of state government rather than federal. But that has its own problems. Do you agree? If not, why not? Do you feel like a massive government can effectively implement this? How? Feels like any massive organization gets shittier… I regularly feel like massive corps just forget about some products. E.X.: Google canceling almost every service they run. Microsoft’s websites being basically broken. Etc…

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      2 months ago

      It’s true that countries in Europe are more akin to states in the US but while there are difficulties scaling up there are also benefits. And in the end everything is divided anyway. It’s not just done in one centralized place.

      The EU has done some meaningful things, though it’s mostly laws and not so much services. I’d argue that it had a much more difficult job also.

      But there’s the private vs non private debate and the small vs big debate