On: Peter Thiel on the future of Libertarianism, politics, and technology

[jacoblyles]

It's also a federalist system with unique geography and a smaller population than New York City. Their example might not be portable.

It's worth thinking of different alternatives, rather than generalizing from a sample size of one.

Hong Kong and Singapore are also good examples of well-run states that are completely different. Hong Kong has the same population as Switzerland.

[biohacker42 → jacoblyles]

That's a good point, all of those places are tiny places. Still, I'd like to think that Switzerland can be scaled up. As well functioning as Singapore is, I don't want to see that scaled up.