In other countries, referendums passed by wider margins. Wider and wider, when they saw how calm descended on countries once a PM took over. Then it became inevitable. Everyone would rationalize. The incentives were right. It was easier: all their parliaments had to do under rationalization was busy themselves with bureaucratic details while the artificial minds of the Prime Ministers made the big decisions. The human parliaments got to tout the results—the minimum-wage increases, the social safety net improvements, the economic stabilization, the CEO pay caps, the pension funds that didn’t
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