Perhaps your system needs a systematic political-policy signal, too. Government involvement was always a red flag to me in the past, but we seem to have entered a new era in that regard—certainly, being clever by eschewing governmental influence hasn't been helpful to me over the last few years; if you can't *avoid* 'em, join 'em.
I'm not sure of a mechanical way to do that, but as I pointed out when the Intel deal was announced last summer ( https://blog.portfolioarmor.com/p/stop-pearl-clutching-over-the-intel ), similar forms of "state capitalism" have been common and successful overseas, despite American libertarian types being ignorant about them.
Perhaps your system needs a systematic political-policy signal, too. Government involvement was always a red flag to me in the past, but we seem to have entered a new era in that regard—certainly, being clever by eschewing governmental influence hasn't been helpful to me over the last few years; if you can't *avoid* 'em, join 'em.
I'm not sure of a mechanical way to do that, but as I pointed out when the Intel deal was announced last summer ( https://blog.portfolioarmor.com/p/stop-pearl-clutching-over-the-intel ), similar forms of "state capitalism" have been common and successful overseas, despite American libertarian types being ignorant about them.