Manufacturing, information systems and transportation
naturally tend to economies of scale--bigger, centralized companies can make
them more efficient and profitable than small entities.
As Fred Turner has
pointed out, education, entertainment, raising quality food, and health care
(as opposed to sick care) are "subject to dis-economies of scale--that is, they
are less effective when pursued by large units of production, such as big
nation-states, and more efficient when they take place in small units..."
Freedom is best maintained somewhere in between--with a
government big enough to protect against foreign aggression but small enough to
be closely overseen by the regular people.
Over government today is far too
big.
If only we could come up with a system where the federal government would
protect us from foreign attack and leave the rest to smaller state governments.
This is precisely what the American founders had in mind.
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