@be For many things, we don’t — and folks here in MSP are doing some amazing community-driven work of that kind.
But reality is that in a society where both resources and consensus flow through democratic process, gov participation is necessary for something like e.g. mental health first responders to work at city scale. Envision radically different hypothetical alternative worlds if you like, yes, but we also need solutions for our current practical reality. That’s why.