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So, tl;dr: politicians are biased toward having more power, and don't take into account how this affects the world.

We saw this coming a long way off. The best solution I can think of is requiring politicians to take comprehensive classes on whatever topic they're grying to legislate, but that in itself is a nightmare to implement.




To borrow from Robert Heinlein, we don't even require that politicians be able to read . . .




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