When I was a child in Taiwan, I went into primary school — I attended six, five of them in Taiwan — and the first thing we did was join the co-op that ran the school shop. Taiwan had just come out of martial law and we could not yet vote for our president. But Sun Yat-sen, the father of the nation — his ideas, anyway — basically said that people need to train their cooperative muscle before they can really vote for a president; otherwise they simply vote for the populist. His theory was that it would take one or two generations: Every primary schooler joins a co-op and runs a shop together. The system stays responsive: When the muscle is built by the people who care, they become the caretakers — mothers and fathers — and can run the country by themselves. Knowing when to let go, rather than creating dependency, is responsiveness.