&quot;Ask HN: What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?&quot;<p>I think we need a way to have a faster iteration cycle for trying sociopolitcal ideas. The problem is, its almost impossible to change the laws necessary at a governmental level in any reasonable time scale. This is exacerbated by the fact that you are inside a &quot;monolithic legacy codebase&quot; in which you can only afford to make minor changes over many years to take you from point A to some goal which is point B, and you still can&#x27;t verify that point B works in any practical way.<p>Ideally, you could have at least an entire city (population ca. 50k minimum) where you could just try out all this stuff, and continually carry out sociopolitical experiments. I suppose that&#x27;s not feasible, but any idea that goes in the direction of increasing iteration times and improving the testability of ideas like this would be a good direction I think.<p>What do other HNers think about this?