dredmorbius
14 hours ago
Discussions about "the government" often treat it as a monolithic entity. This isn't the case, and within the United States there are nearly 90,000 individual governmental units (roughly on per 3,300 adults). Nearly 7,000 of those are within Illinois alone.
I find this has interesting implications when discussion heads toward "what if we supported X through the government", and the inevitable objection that handing "the government" too much power would lead to excessive concentration. The reality is that distributed governmental support might well be diverse and reasonably competitive.
By contrast, there are roughly 2,200 companies listed on the NYSE, with another 3,400 at the Nasdaq, a substantial portion of which are foreign:
<https://www.statista.com/statistics/1277216/nyse-nasdaq-comp...>
palmfacehn
13 hours ago
The trend has been for power to become more concentrated in the central, Federal government. A more decentralized approach would offer more competition and checks on abuse.