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Originally Posted by whswhs
The efficiency falls off as you go to larger scale. On one hand, the number of decisions to be made increases at least as fast as the number of people (perhaps as fast as the square of the number of people?);
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Not if the decisions made are broad in nature. The number of types of goods and services certainly isn't proportional to the population.
(Also, the total number of economic decisions made regardless of how they're made can't be scaling faster than population, because the total number that
can be made by people only scales proportional to population. Scaling as the square is right out.)
That said, the point that plebiscites are
at best population-independent in frequency holds, unless you have something akin to federalism going on.