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It's almost as if representative democracy of this kind is a complete sham. It's a good job this kind of ridiculous situation doesn't crop up here on HN from ou
by whyleyc 10y ago
It's almost as if representative democracy of this kind is a complete sham. It's a good job this kind of ridiculous situation doesn't crop up here on HN from our YC overlords !
Wait, what. [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633517
- jamesrcole 10y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but didn't the initial description of the initiative explicitly say that they wouldn't simply be using votes and would still use their own discretion to make the final judgements?
- david927 10y agoWhat are you talking about? Neither is a representative democracy. They don't have to do anything. Both simply appealed to the public as an experiment and learned that a large swath of the public feels it has no power and finds it empowering, now that they finally have their hands on the steering wheel, to flip the car rather than drive it. Children who haven't been given much autonomy will often have the same mentality: when finally given power they will be destructive because it's a better test of the reality of the new-found power.
- whyleyc 10y agoOk, so maybe "representative democracy" (in a strict political sense) was bad terminology to use, but my point is that both experiments set themselves up with a veneer of democracy only for that to come crumbling down when they didn't like the answers they got.