12 March 2021 - ideal government 1

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The Argument for Minimal Government

An ideal government would do no evil, because evil harms its own operations by increasing resistance. It follows that an evil government is incompetent, and that evil decreases as competence increases. But coordination costs increase with size for every organization, therefore the larger government is necessarily less competent and more evil. QED

clue:

The reasoning ignores what good the government might do.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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