Reddit reviews Demosclerosis:: The Silent Killer of American Government

I highly recommend that you read Demosclerosis

Closing tax loopholes and generating revenue are functionally indistinct, but youre otherwise spot on. A gradual accumulation of government handouts, impossible to get rid of once they're put in place, has slowly eroded our government's efficacy and its solvency. Johnathan Rauch called it demosclerosis.

Yeah.

There's actually a book on this topic, iirc it was called Demosclerosis, and it was supposedly (haven't read it myself) how civilizations fail as government becomes more complex because of continued expansion, which ultimately results in an inability to respond to a disaster situation, eg economic, natural, etc., when they arise, resulting in the destruction of that civilization. Or something to that effect.

https://www.amazon.ca/Demosclerosis-Silent-Killer-American-Government/dp/0812926323/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474740487&sr=8-1&keywords=demosclerosis

Actually, I think it may be this book The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter

Also the effect of creating an irrelevant barrier to entry for other businesses to meet the demand for said business.

Typical prog-think though.

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