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telomerase comments on Politics: an undervalued opportunity to change the world? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: telomerase 14 August 2015 08:08:44PM 0 points [-]

There are few places, and certainly not the US, where too little of society's resources are consumed by politics.

But therefore, in the US at least, action to remove parts of society from politics can be very effective altruism. E.g., the citizen watchdog group NHLA in New Hampshire that targets corporate welfare and other parasitic programs (e.g. the Drug War). They spend very little money (about 40K per year), but have an outsize effect on policy.

nhliberty.org

Comment author: Lumifer 14 August 2015 08:12:19PM 4 points [-]

action to remove parts of society from politics

I don't understand what that means.