✅ Democracy
🚫 Slavery
🚫 Political machines
✅ Railroads
✅ Splitting up monopolies
🚫 Free market healthcare
✅ Cars in low density areas
🚫 Cars in high density areas
✅ Buses in high density areas
Maybe the secret is they accumulated a ton of shitty experimental policies! All we have to do to leapfrog them is to simply bring back policies that are known to be shit!