Any political system is attractive in its theoretical definition.
The dreamers who conceive them and discuss them transfer their enthusiasm to the masses. The masses eventually believe in the system.
Steadily the human element takes a preeminent role. The human element bastardizes the system because people seek power.
Power leads to greed. Both eventually distort the initial definition of the system.
Milton Friedman got us all excited about his monetarist--free market approach. Now, however, the bureaucracy (read: vested interests) are not allowing the system to work. Distortions are introduced such as new regulations and new levels of regulatory power groups.
We are profoundly changing. Ports need to become more efficient. Yet we refuse foreign investors to do the job.
Where are we heading? Our system is changing. The masses do not know. The new power groups are distancing themselves more and more from us. They do it for our own good. But crisis follows crisis as never before.
More on https://www.peterdag.com/.
George Dagnino, PhD
Editor, The Peter Dag Portfolio
Since 1977
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