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Socialism and dictatorships work better the smaller the unit being attended to.

We practice socialism in my family in the sense that resources are distributed according to need, and a dictatorship in the sense that ultimately 1 person makes the final decision to implement a course of action. The further from small units you get, the less effective the strategy. I can tell if someone in my family has a need, is wasting some resource, or otherwise taking advantage of something. There's no practical way for me (or some bureaucratic agency) to know if some random stranger has an actual need, or how responsibly they utilize the assistance they receive from the public.

... and I found out SA is available via the iPhone's terrible podcast app, so that's how I'm listening now. Just wish there was a 1.25x option, as that speed normalizes SAs slow speech.

The part I found interesting was the explanation of how it could very much be in Trump's interest to permit a place for TerraPower to build a test reactor. Unfortunately the time horizon for such projects is so far out that there's not much immediate recognition one could get, but plenty of push back from NIMBY and uninformed environmental types.