Hmm I guess I wouldn’t be that surprised if we observed similar levels of what you call “dysfunction” in the US. Earlier you asked:
Framed differently, what would it take for you to accept the same thing for yourself—that an organization is hundreds of times better at helping you than you are at helping yourself?
I guess the intuitive plausibility of this is rather low (or perhaps I have an overly high opinion of myself) if the problem is framed as one of my own rationality, but I can much more easily buy that there are collective action problems that benefit “people like me” at >100x the costs.
Hmm I guess I wouldn’t be that surprised if we observed similar levels of what you call “dysfunction” in the US. Earlier you asked:
I guess the intuitive plausibility of this is rather low (or perhaps I have an overly high opinion of myself) if the problem is framed as one of my own rationality, but I can much more easily buy that there are collective action problems that benefit “people like me” at >100x the costs.