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Re:China's social credit system is both unique and part of a... by adrianN on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:00AM (#24624297)
I think you need to differentiate. Some issues can't be optimized by the people facing them daily, because game theory forbids them. Issues involving coordinated action are basically unsolvable bottom up.
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Re:China's social credit system is both unique and part of a... by DeonPenny on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:39AM (#24628355)
I think history disagrees with that. With deregulation and incentive and because how the resource pool in human civilization according to Pareto distributions. You can have a individual coordinate most things bottom up if you let them. Like people thought private space flight was impossible, but it ended up being more impossible from a top down process than a bottoms up on via elon musk.
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