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The basic form of quadratic voting, with actual money, also makes trying to protect yourself and your rights against hostile voting blocks expensive. Are you b
by Semiapies 7y ago
The basic form of quadratic voting, with actual money, also makes trying to protect yourself and your rights against hostile voting blocks expensive. Are you black? Muslim? Transgender? The majority votes to screw you over in some way, and you spend to vote harder against them and so manage to stop them. And then you've spent quite a bit of money, which gets redistributed to all voters (ie, everyone in your group sees little of it back)...and then they vote again to do the same damn thing you opposed before, and now you're fucked.
- blunte 7y agoThis assumes the majority would focus their energy on a narrow set of issues. Unless you have studies to back up that assumption, I would not believe it. And if the majority actually did feel so strongly about a narrow set of issues, then it should be very expensive for a minority to counter that.
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- godelski 7y agoIsn't this just baked into any form of representative government or democracy? It doesn't seem like voting is the issue as much as how you proportionally represent your society. The problem is that any minority group will always have less voting power than the majority group (if their interests are disjoint and no other coalitions are formed).
- jorblumesea 7y agoIsn't that the definition of a minority group and the problems with any democracy? And why should the majority bend to the will of a minority?
- rgoulter 7y ago> Why should the majority bend to the will of a minority I'd prefer to read GP's post as a "live and let live", rather than pursuit of domination. That said, there's always the risk of "dominating minority is bad" if my in-group is the minority, and "upholding majority preferences is good" if my in-group the majority. :-)