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If you are going to build a bridge are you going to hire an engineer or a cook? Now if you're going to create laws would you hire someone who has studied roman,
by Entangled 9y ago
If you are going to build a bridge are you going to hire an engineer or a cook? Now if you're going to create laws would you hire someone who has studied roman, germanic, sharia law since the times of Hammurabi, philosophy, sociology, politics and everything necessary to understand human interaction and association, or a bus driver?
We get the government we deserve, proportional to our level of ignorance.
There is a big difference between picking from a pool of politicians (crooks who climb the ladder by manipulation, backstabbing and deceit) and the best lawyers according to market forces and meritocracy then randomized.
- Zigurd 9y agoIf you ask the engineer whether to build the bridge, you might get a biased answer.
- namlem 9y agoYou need to balance it though. For example by adding economists and social scientists to the pool. You can't let one group have too much power.
- dleslie 9y agoThe writing of laws can be left to staff, who may be lawyers, the impetus to have them written and passed need not be left solely to those who benefit from there being an abundance of them. It doesn't take an Engineer to recognize that a bridge needs to be constructed.