End D.C. linked on Editorials

“With enormous technological changes in how business is conducted and how communication works, it may be that a capital city is a vestige of an earlier era. Perhaps rather than working to fix D.C., we should work to end it… today, we shop online. We work online. For two years, people went to school online. If all these essential life activities could be moved to the internet, why couldn’t government?” Adam Ellwanger adds a lot of detail to my {% crosslink "big-house" "2015 idea of dispersing the House of Representatives to their respective districts” %}. His proposal disperses everyone, the House, the Senate, and even the various bureaucracies.

Rather than send the various bureaucracies out of DC to the states, his idea is to do the same thing I suggested for the House: keep the individual employees at home so that each department is fully distributed. This vastly reduces both the potential for a monoculture to develop, and the severity of any monoculture that does develop.

“Dissolving the capital could reduce the corruption… [and] make it feel a good deal closer to the people it serves.”

It’s a great idea. Good luck getting the beltway to agree to it.