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This will help, but isnt the real issue .. which is that the main qualifier for high office is having immense wealth. The measure of wealth in and of itself se
by jgord 10y ago
This will help, but isnt the real issue .. which is that the main qualifier for high office is having immense wealth.
The measure of wealth in and of itself selects for people without the depth of experience in fields other than personal-wealth-generation. Due to effects explained in Piketty's Capital, it also has a secondary selection bias, preferring inherited wealth over entrepreneurial wealth.
Given the prior, that we do have money-in-politics, it makes sense to erode that bias in a minor way by having more STEM [ and poor but innovative entrepreneur ] people get involved in politics.
It also helps as a partial measure to reduce the power of the daily alternative facts, post truth media barrage we now face [ itself partly due to big-money owning the media ] - STEM practitioners are familiar with sifting facts from noise.
We should also solve the real problem - big-[old]-money in politics - perhaps by flushing the big-money out with little-money : a torrent of 27 dollar contributions from citizens.
The massive womens rally and the Bernie movement give me hope we might achieve this - but clearly the DNC itself is afflicted by the same cancer, and must be taken over by real/progressive Democrats for there to be any hope of sane policy in America.
[edit : clarity, intent ]
- woofyman 10y agoOverturn Citizens United and publicly fund elections.
- jeffdavis 10y agoI think blame on Citizen's United is misplaced. Even without it, rich interests can (and do) simply buy media companies and promote politicians without any regulation at all. In theory at least, the pooling of money into PACs allows ordinary people with small donations to make a dofference. Maybe we should encourage ordinary citizens to put some money into PACs, which will have a greater impact than trying to prevent rich people from having influence (which doesn't usually work).
- Agustus 10y agoFrom your perspective, what were the legal issues of the case that make you disagree with it?
- Xcelerate 10y ago> the main qualifier for high office is having immense wealth. I would modify this to say that the main qualifier for high office is having the capability to generate a lot of wealth (in the form of advertising revenue) for the media companies.
- tasuki 10y agoI prefer my politicians having immense wealth. I want them to have enough - whatever "enough" is for them - before assuming office.