[asdasdsddd]

Yes and we managed to do that for 150 years with a fraction of the current government size.

[pesus]

You think we protected everyone's rights in 1874?

[afiori]

Many things like childcare, elder care, or healthcare have significantly changed over the last 150 years and now people have much less slack[0] to go back to the old ways.

Anyway I care little about the size of a government as it is the result of many perverse incentives (vetocracy, companies pushing for both deregulations and regulatory capture, late stage capitalism trying to make almost everyone poor and/or unstable) but the latest generation of attacks on the size of the government feel a lot like a Embrace Extend Extinguish on social safety nets so that predatory industries like healtcare insurance can better extract wealth from the lower classes

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/

[asdasdsddd]

Do you think inequality has risen or decreased as the size of the government increased? Regulatory capture can only exist with the existence of unchecked regulatory power. I personally work in a space that is insanely difficult to new entrants because of the thousands of regulations you need to comply to (90% are garbage btw). If tmrw, our industry had a regulation reform, the entrenched players would die overnight.

[etchalon]

... there's a lot of people who aren't landing-owning white men who would disagree with you.

[asdasdsddd]

So you are saying if the founding fathers had 100 agencies then slavery wouldve been abolished?