{"id":7189,"date":"2014-10-03T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7189"},"modified":"2014-10-03T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T04:15:00","slug":"another-attribute-of-small-is-beautiful-what-we-call-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/another-attribute-of-small-is-beautiful-what-we-call-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Another attribute of small is beautiful: what we call democracy."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Another attribute of small is beautiful: what we call democracy.<br \/>\nThe idea of democracy is to take the citizens&#8217; location as fixed, and the identity of those in government as variable, the &#8220;representatives&#8221; matching the preferences of the people. But you can get similar results of representation, even under dictatorships, by varying the people&#8217;s location instead.<br \/>\nAssuming you are able to move to the canton or municipality where you feel the dictators represent your tastes &amp; beliefs, such competition would put pressure on local municipal dictators to please taxpaying constituents so they stick around.<br \/>\nSo the smaller the size of political units and the larger their number, the more democracy we get in the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152509416513375&amp;id=13012333374\">Another attribute of small is beautiful: what&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another attribute of small is beautiful: what we call democracy. The idea of democracy is to take the citizens&#8217; location as fixed, and the identity of those in government as variable, the &#8220;representatives&#8221; matching the preferences of the people. But you can get similar results of representation, even under dictatorships, by varying the people&#8217;s location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[771],"class_list":["post-7189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-small-is-beautiful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7191,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions\/7191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}