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Sortition. Rule by random citizen.
by urethrafranklin 9y ago
Sortition. Rule by random citizen.
- dredmorbius 9y agoOne of the best articles I've read in the past decade: "If you can't choose wisely, choose randomly" https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-randomly https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-ran...
- eyelidlessness 9y agoSounds nice but pretty much guarantees that anything of any serious complexity will get contracted out (or hired in) to an increasingly entrenched oligarchy.
- yorwba 9y agoPoliticians are already incapable of handling everything of any serious complexity, except maybe for a narrow domain of their own expertise. For everything else, they need to rely on other's advice. It seems to me that often, those people tend to be lobbyists that just happened to volunteer themselves when the politician was out of their depth. If the politician is any good at what they do, they will consult several experts, but there is still room for significant bias to creep in. Now the question is whether the average random citizen is more or less likely than the average politician, to succumb to this kind of external influence. My guess is that random selection will yield less people who are only in it for the power, but also less people who are genuinely driven by the need to solve problems within society.