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JOSEPH REISERT: Ants may have an edge when designing efficient systems

The really important political debate today is not between Democrats and Republicans, or between liberals and conservatives.

It’s between the architects and the ants.

The architects see the state and society as if it were a building, designed and constructed according to a rational blueprint. The architect makes the plans, then tells the various workers what to do, and when and how to do it. If the workers run into a problem, the architect wants to hear about i...
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