Yesterday I bitched that the government totally lacks negative feedback. The people want the EXACT OPPOSITE of what government is doing on all issues.
If a control input from the people was connected, government actions would flip back and forth for a while, then settle down into an equilibrium as popular satisfaction calmed down the error signal. This happened in the 1930s as the New Deal decided to start satisfying the people instead of Morgan and Rockefeller. The agencies tried various solutions, carefully measured the response, and settled into an asymptote by 1939 as the agencies and laws cured the pain and rebellion caused by Morganitis.
There’s another way of looking at it. Government IS responding to negative feedback from the voters, who are Larry Fink and Zuck and Bezos and a few defense contractors. When government does something displeasing to the voters, it receives sharp corrections and slaps from the voters. It quickly snaps back the other way, then wiggles down to an equilibrium as Fink is satisfied.
The absolute stasis we’ve seen for the last 20 years tells us that the real voters are perfectly satisfied. No error or correction signal at all from Fink or Zuck or Bezos or Boeing. All wonderful.
The 330 million Negative Externalities that happen to infest the continent are not part of the control schematic. We are targets, not aimers.
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