A grande luta

 Ontem, o primeiro tweet que li foi este:

Localism, I keep saying. You don't replace a government that harms you with more government.

Self-organization and bottom up government. Take things into your own hands. https://t.co/H8YaAaAkVm

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 8, 2020

Depois, mais tarde li isto:

"The pattern is a familiar one.
When things go wrong, central government blames other institutions and decides that the only solution is to take power away from them. It’s a vicious cycle. By centralising power, government weakens those institutions, making it harder for them to respond to problems. More things go wrong, and the centre then grabs more power. The cycle seems to be accelerating under Mr Johnson, which is hardly surprising: his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, has not yet encountered an institution he did not want to weaken.
This cycle has turned Britain into one of the most centralised countries in the world. Measured by the ability to raise taxes — which, as the American revolutionaries noticed, the measure of power — Britain is extreme. Local government in Britain raises less than 10 per cent its revenues, compared with an average of a third across members the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a club of rich nations. Among these countries, only Luxembourg and Portugal are as centralised as Britain.
You might think that’s a good thing. Taking decisions at the centre makes it, in theory, possible to provide people with the same level and quality of services and benefits, from John O’Groats to Land’s End.
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There’s no way of proving that centralisation causes inequality, but there are good reasons for suspecting it might. Capital cities that hog power tend to hog resources. London and the southeast generate more wealth than do the rest of the country, per head of population, and they also get an unfair share of resources. If you look at infrastructure spending in recent years, projects with a poor cost-benefit ratio in London and the southeast were approved, while projects with a better one elsewhere got turned down. Centralising power also fosters discontent with government. That, too, is hardly surprising. The farther away authority sits, the more alien it seems."

Trechos retirados de "Centralisation is the root of our problems"

Esta é a grande luta que temos pela frente.