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What greater incentive do current voters have for picking the correct policy/representative? Either way, people with power are balancing their personal interest
by jessriedel 7y ago
What greater incentive do current voters have for picking the correct policy/representative? Either way, people with power are balancing their personal interest with justice / the public interest.
- rocqua 7y agoVoters don't, but politicians have incentive to listen to voters, rather than being totally in it for themselves. In other words, the desire to be re-elected causes politicians to listen to the people, rather than do whatever they want. At least, that is the theory.
- jessriedel 7y agoSure, politicians might have to listen to voters, but if voters themselves are selfish then how does that help? Like, if we are worried about the hypothetical winners of the sortition lottery would legislate selfishly, shouldn't we worry just as much that normal voters will elect politicians who will pass legislation that furthers the voters' selfish interests?
- rocqua 7y agoIf you aggregate the selfish interests of all voters, you get a better reflection of what society wants than if you average the selfish interests of 1000 people chosen at random.