Originally posted on my LinkedIn profile.
The radical restructuring of the US government that we are witnessing has me contemplating.
- What have we been delegating to national governments that we should be doing in our neighbourhoods?
- What have we been delegating to corporations that we should be doing through government?
- What have we been delegating to corporations that we should be doing through charitable organizations?
And other similar questions.
- What legislation and regulation do we need to support proper delegation of the right tasks to the right places?
- What funding money will put enough money where it is needed?
- What regulation and legislation do we need to support such structures?
And those questions beg the question: How do we know what is right?
Ken Wilber, in his best work, describes a universal moral compass as the maximum amount of the pie distributed to the maximum number of people.
From a developmental lens, the human being matures from caring only for oneself to caring for the space-time context one lives in and for all beings.
What governance structures should be in place in households, schools, childcare, civic society, and workplaces to maximize the likelihood that children (who take care of themselves by making grown-ups like them enough to take care of them) develop the habits of caring for the greater good and then are enabled to use them to become successful in adulthood?
What governance would be needed to prevent so many children becoming adults who need therapy?
What corporate governance would support the greater whole?
To be fair, I have been asking these questions in some form off and on since I was taught to debate at the age of 10, and went to law school where I did a deep dive, but I have been somewhat distracted over the past 22 years raising 4 complex, quirky, brilliant kids mostly in an adopted country, so it’s the vigour with which these questions are presenting themselves that have changed.
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