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> Voting with your dollars doesn't really work. You are and ant and the people who feel like you are a small percentage. Couldn't you say the same thing about
by bhupy 6y ago
> Voting with your dollars doesn't really work. You are and ant and the people who feel like you are a small percentage.
Couldn't you say the same thing about actual voting, though? In an election, what difference does your one vote make, in the grand scheme of things? Has there ever been an election where the margin was low enough that your one vote would have made a real difference?
- djsumdog 6y agoOh absolutely! Especially in non-representational voting systems like in the US. Australia has order of preference (ranking) so you can't throw your vote away and NZ has MMP to evenly distribute half the party seats by % of the population that votes for them. American voting is pretty next to useless. I did a whole video on that: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/video/does-voting-make-a-difference/ https://battlepenguin.com/politics/video/does-voting-make-a-...
- uoaei 6y agoI like the ongoing debate between different voting schemes. I prefer approval voting over other things like RCV/IRV -- it reflects "average" percentages of approval directly and results in the least dissatisfaction, averaged across the population. No spoiler effects, which still exist in FPTP and RCV. The most interesting and IMO overlooked part is how easy it is to communicate to the voter how they should vote. Approval voting is easy -- at the top of the ballot just say "check the box next to each name of the person who you approve of, and check as many as you like".