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Which leads to the next question. Why are we voting for a human at all? If members of an organization want a resolution passed anyone should be able to propose
by smokeyj 10y ago
Which leads to the next question. Why are we voting for a human at all? If members of an organization want a resolution passed anyone should be able to propose it - and if the magic threshold is met - then whala - the resolution is law.
I want to be able to vote everyday. I want to be able to pick who I want to represent my vote - and change it at will. I want to be able to pick Bill Gates to represent me on technology issues, and Sal Khan to represent me on education.
Government is just an organization, and an organization is a network. We should be using computer science terms to describe how we want this network to operate in terms of resolution, latency, redundancy, centralization/decentralization, upgrade protocls, failovers, and so on.
What I'm trying to say is.. Let's purge the politicians and put the people in charge.
- dangero 10y agoI agree the replacement for current democracy is more technology based with provable transparency. Bitcoin's decentralized ledger breathes a lot of life into this concept.
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- nebabyte 10y ago> If members of an organization want a resolution passed anyone should be able to propose it - and if the magic threshold is met - then whala - the resolution is law. ...You just described the legislative branch. Direct democracy has its own problems; even if you scale for proportions of people, the people leading their everyday lives do not have the time to inform themselves en masse of particulars about issues, and thus would be readily swayed by false information. (As can already be seen with voting on ballot measures, which are a headache enough just being statewide) And *viola
- pikzen 10y ago*voila. Unless you really meant "raped", but for some reason I feel like this isn't it :^)
- nebabyte 10y agoTouché. Though at least I was closer than he was :)
- Spoom 10y agoDirect democracy tends to lead to tyrannies of the majority. I'd much prefer a multi-party system with some form of instant-runoff voting or mixed member proportional voting. *voila, as the French: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0
- vkou 10y agoRepresentative democracy leads to tyrranies of the oligarchy. We don't need any more evidence for this. I too, however, would prefer a run-off election.