You’re making my plan… aka pragmatarianism… extremely difficult to implement
What is going on here is that they are raising practical implementation problems. They aren’t making it difficult.
A huge fluctuation in demand is unwarranted?
Whether they are “unwarranted” or not they don’t work well. Many projects take many years to complete. If one engages in rapid changes many civil and scientific projects will stall. This is part of the problem with the current space program in the US: each US president drastically alters the space priority as they desperately try to have a legacy like Kennedy’s. What they don’t apparently appreciate is that Kennedy’s space program was left partially intact more because he was a martyr than anything else.
Sorry about that. I made my point poorly. What Epictetus was doing to pragmatarianism is exactly what I would want him to do to any government plan. It should be just as difficult for the government to implement any of its plan as it is for me to implement my plan. It’s great to have more, rather than less, people inspecting a plan for problems. According to Linus’s Law… given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow. Allowing people to choose where their taxes go would put a lot of eyeballs in the public sector.
Regarding your second point… it’s addressed by the comment where I brought up the example of putting a man on the moon. Also, wouldn’t you guess that there’d be less demand fluctuations with the public than with presidents or congress? The public really doesn’t switch back and forth between conservative and liberal like presidents and congress do. I’d think that, for the most part, the aggregate demand for most things would be a lot steadier than the “demand” we get from our seesaw government.
I don’t think Linus’s law applies here, since that’s with areas like programming where a) the eyeballs are experts and b) it is close unambiguous once a bug has been found that it is a bug.
Also, wouldn’t you guess that there’d be less demand fluctuations with the public than with presidents or congress? The public really doesn’t switch back and forth between conservative and liberal like presidents and congress do.
This is a really good point and seems like the strongest argument for your proposal.
What is going on here is that they are raising practical implementation problems. They aren’t making it difficult.
Whether they are “unwarranted” or not they don’t work well. Many projects take many years to complete. If one engages in rapid changes many civil and scientific projects will stall. This is part of the problem with the current space program in the US: each US president drastically alters the space priority as they desperately try to have a legacy like Kennedy’s. What they don’t apparently appreciate is that Kennedy’s space program was left partially intact more because he was a martyr than anything else.
Sorry about that. I made my point poorly. What Epictetus was doing to pragmatarianism is exactly what I would want him to do to any government plan. It should be just as difficult for the government to implement any of its plan as it is for me to implement my plan. It’s great to have more, rather than less, people inspecting a plan for problems. According to Linus’s Law… given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow. Allowing people to choose where their taxes go would put a lot of eyeballs in the public sector.
Regarding your second point… it’s addressed by the comment where I brought up the example of putting a man on the moon. Also, wouldn’t you guess that there’d be less demand fluctuations with the public than with presidents or congress? The public really doesn’t switch back and forth between conservative and liberal like presidents and congress do. I’d think that, for the most part, the aggregate demand for most things would be a lot steadier than the “demand” we get from our seesaw government.
I don’t think Linus’s law applies here, since that’s with areas like programming where a) the eyeballs are experts and b) it is close unambiguous once a bug has been found that it is a bug.
This is a really good point and seems like the strongest argument for your proposal.