That's one zoom level. Another one that's just as relevant is: What is the effect on me, personally? And there are other zoom levels in between.
None of these zoom levels are more "true" than the others.
None of these zoom levels are more "true" than the others.
Hence it’s physically impossible to advance a single nanometer on this line of reasoning.
This is genuinely surprising to me, do you not understand how people make decisions?
How could you possibly extend this to all of them without running into an even more intractable problem?
i.e. you literally cannot accomplish this otherwise, even for the simplest case of n=2, with certainty. Since there’s always a non zero possibility of any chosen person becoming much smarter and wiser than you in the future.
Via ignoring the infinite number of futures where they do.
Besides, any choice you make for yourself has an impact on others in the second order. Ignoring it makes the problem worse. No one is a isolated system, no man an island.
Digging an ever deeper hole for yourself at this point is distracting from the actual post.
Many governments appear to have lost their way...or more likely they just define "the people" as the folks who donate to their next campaign.
Government is merely the term that identifies a group of employees who work for the people. If said employees are not doing their job well, that's not on the employees, that's on bad management at the top. A fish rots from the head down, as they say.