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Oh, okay, so the real problem is that they can't even remember what they're going to vote on. Isn't this actually even worse though? they "didn't get the memo"

Oh, okay, so the real problem is that they can't even remember what they're going to vote on. Isn't this actually even worse though? they "didn't get the memo" that they were voting for the wrong thing? Is that how we want politics to work?

vanderZwan 8y ago
No, it's not, and these people should be held accountable for that for sure. On the other hand, we don't know the exact details of how the whole system is set up. It might be that "they "didn't get the memo" that they were voting for the wrong thing?" is underselling that the whole system is full of bad (if not flat-out dark) UI/UX patterns that increase the chance of mistakes like this. A good run-through of that might benefit everyone. I will confess that I'm probably a bit biased in my interpretation of the context; I quickly feel overwhelmed by administration stuff and am always scared in bureaucratic contexts that I fill in some form incorrectly. Basically, it makes me feel like I'm in Jim Henson's Paperwork Explosion[0]. So doing that as your job sounds terrifyingly stressful to me (and yes, I do realize it's weird that I don't feel the same about programming, which is arguably the act of writing instructions for an unforgiving literal-minded bureaucratic automaton). [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk