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9 Sept 2020 Conversations with Tyler Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
“People don’t know who they are or who does what — things like that — and trying to get a … Lenin said, “better fewer, but better,” which I think you could accomplish a lot with in local governments in the United States.”
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…How should we attract more talent to state and local governments? I mean this in a purely nonpartisan way. Just smarter, harder-working people. Ooh, yeah, smarter, harder-working people in state and local governments. For local government, I think a lot of this probably has to do with cleaning up some of the muck. There’s too many different local government institutions. People don’t know who they are or who does what — things like that — and trying to get a … Lenin said, “better fewer, but better,” which I think you could accomplish a lot with in local governments in the United States. State government is interesting. We have a big problem where the media — people who follow politics — don’t get at all emotionally or intellectually invested in what’s happening in Indiana, even though state government carries an incredible amount of the load. All the first-order service delivery is done there, but it’s very . . . It’s not just low prestige. It’s like almost people don’t pay attention to it at all. Well, that is low prestige, yeah.…
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