| Machina said: Deferred pain. |
Deferred pain is exactly what the game's about. You smooth out the curves so that the bumps are less traumatic and fewer people get hurt.
It's like an insurance plan. You pay into it over a long period of time, and when calamity strikes your insurance helps ease what might otherwise be a very difficult decision.
But democratically elected governments have a hard time saving up for the future because taxpayers hate paying money for vague disasters that might possibly happen sometime in the future. So instead of paying into a plan ahead of time, they generally borrow the money when the catastrophe hits and (hopefully) pay it back later. This works pretty well when you're a government and you have access to nearly unlimited cheap credit whenever you want it. Don't we all wish that we could buy insurance retroactively?
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