I honestly don&#x27;t even know which side it is that you think is &quot;far more effective&quot; at solving social problems. Do you think it&#x27;s the Democrats? Because &quot;big government and taxes&quot; are also far more effective at <i>creating</i> social problems that local charities. Have you read about the corrosive effects of welfare on black communities? Have you ever joined in complaining about the inability of public school systems to successfully adapt and harness changing technologies? Have you noticed that our biggest social problems just &quot;happen&quot; to also be located right where Democratic policies were <i>enacted</i> (i.e., the policies <i>preceded</i> the social degradation)? All of these things are certainly at least debatable, but they are also certainly not so obviously false that they can simply be discarded without consideration.<p>&quot;Big government and taxes&quot; may <i>theoretically</i> be more capable of solving problems, but there&#x27;s a big gulf between theory and reality.<p>And back on point so this is at least <i>less</i> an off-topic diversion than it otherwise would be, are you A: inclined to agree that hierarchies are bad for cooperation even as B: you declare that the largest hierarchy in the world, &quot;government&quot;, is better at solving social problems than distributed non-hierarchical networks? I don&#x27;t know, because you, mozumder, personally didn&#x27;t say, but I rather suspect there&#x27;s a lot of people here holding both those beliefs simultaneously without noticing the profound philosophical conflicts they have.