we need startup mentality and efficiency in the governmental structures that are built for redistributing valuable resources in a system that exists in opposition to the outside world. Competition still does exists and we have internal and external dangerous forces that might make human life on the planet uncomfortable. To prevent this sudden wake up call to the broader society we must engineer incentives that will make the society slightly feeling the urge to do something productive that brings value. This force will be embedded into the economic model and will keep propagating further. Bringing a more just efficient and lean government that is working purely for the society's greater good.
Most startups burn runway and fail. Not a model for longstanding governance. Likewise what are your incentives? I think we have enough incentives already for people to be productive its just they face blockers to productivity. Investment is limited. Knowledge is gated and not evenly distributed or made accessible as means of stratifying the populace by trade. We seem more content to have a society of a few highly paid engineers vs a society where everyone is an engineer making a median wage. And a lack of social safety net means development optimizes for quick profitability in order to at least pay the owners bills vs developing novel technology that isn’t dependent on profitability in todays economic context (which severely limits human technological potential).
