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I think national initiatives is probably a different problem /an arena that we can’t be defeatist. Because using the same logic as your dinner preparation example, immediately you are asking politicians to decide which 20% of the population they are going to “give up”, which give rise to problems.. inequality, lobbying, rent-seeking... it’s fundamentally different than the dinner or the product example, because your friends and customers have other alternatives and they can afford the worst result. For example a friend can afford eating in advance at home. A customer can probably find another substitution product. But when it comes to National initiative, citizens don’t really have another choice (migrate to another country for their education system?), and I think that makes national initiative almost all the time needs to be perfectionist ...

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