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>Right now it's perfect for bribery, where you only need to bribe a select few and you can destroy a whole country. There are plenty of fraud reporting (not sm
by ABCLAW 8y ago
>Right now it's perfect for bribery, where you only need to bribe a select few and you can destroy a whole country.
There are plenty of fraud reporting (not small scale stuff, we're talking commissions, etc.) that describe how municipalities are functionally captured. It is done today, but on a scale far smaller than what your plan allows. Also, since the stakes are smaller, the oversight is smaller, which means there's more, but less impactful fraud at that level. With your plan, we'd have more, but now potentially even more impactful fraud.
You seem to believe you need to bribe ALL municipal-level politicians to get what you want. That's not the case. One jurisdiction is enough for most ends. As for price, you've just created competition for corruption among every county. That drives prices down, not up.
Now that the attack surface is huge and the prices have plummeted, what do you think happens next?
This is one counterargument, but there's a ton more. In short, every co-ordination problem now has no venue to be solved unless it falls under your umbrella of 'big, unchanging things', and sadly a lot of co-ordination problems just plain aren't that simple.
As a bit of a double whammy, co-ordination problems underlie a large portion (if not the overwhelming majority) of our issues in social systems. Removing the government's ability to act on them is fatal to the government's ability to govern.