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I have this horrible feeling that you'll soon buy the government you want; Amazon or Facebook Gov is a terrifying idea: "do you want to add on the international
by andy_ppp 6y ago
I have this horrible feeling that you'll soon buy the government you want; Amazon or Facebook Gov is a terrifying idea: "do you want to add on the international development budget for £14.99 per month".
I wonder if it would be better than what we currently have?
- rbrtl 6y agoYou have just inspired me. I've always wanted a political fiction to try and write in my spare time, this sounds perfect :)
- ddalex 6y agoNot sure if you've read Jennifer Government
- nickflood 6y agoCompetition in a government space would be a good thing, imo. For a while at least. Beats being quite permanently attached to a shitty gov at birth.
- pschastain 6y agoKinda what voting is for - to change the current gov't.
- aljungberg 6y agoVoting can be helpful, but not always. For a long time the voting majority in some places thought treating black people as lesser human beings was fair. In those cases, having the option to easily choose a different government would be useful. In a way, having states in the US is that idea. E.g. moving from a deeply racist southern state during the height of equal but separate era to a more progressive state would have given you far better results than voting in terms of how you were treated by the local government.
- close04 6y ago> having the option to easily choose a different government would be useful This opens everyone up to the kind of complexity nobody is ready for. - Would the groups split under different governments but sharing the same territory? Who has the final word? - Do they split the territory? Who gets the better one? - In any group someone will be unhappy with the treatment. How many times do you split and "get your own government"? - Maybe the competition is between the already established governments of existing countries. What happens when one government (or the people it represents) doesn't what specific people from joining the group?
- syshum 6y agoDepends on the type of voting employed. First Past the Post (what most nations us) is not a way to pick a true representative official, it breads defensive voting, vote spoiling, and all kinds of other problems where you end up in a spiral of worse and worse people, and where everyone says "I do not want either option but...."
- fsloth 6y agoA functioning government more or less is a negotiation and arbitration platform between large economic players - the state being one of these, of course. So I'm not sure what 'buying the government' actually would mean or how it would be different...
- andy_ppp 6y agoWhat is this functioning government of which you speak?
- snarfy 6y agoRepresentative democracy doesn't really represent me. I want to go online and fill out a long, myers briggs like personality test that judges my political leanings, and then have that data fed to a script that votes on all the issues for me directly, skipping the middlemen. Collectively those scripts would be a far better representation than any human. Replace all politicians with tiny shell scripts.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoThere is not a person, alive, dead, or not yet born that I would trust to write such code.
- andy_ppp 6y agoAs opposed to politicians who take bribes in the form of campaign donations?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoSo instead of repealing bad legislation we should invent a whole new system from scratch using technologies the very inventors barely understand? Eesh.
- andy_ppp 6y agoHaha, I’m only playing devil’s advocate, it’s a terrible idea clearly.
- syshum 6y agoThis is the self driving care problem People want a perfect system to replace an imperfect one. When instead they should rationally look at it and ask "is it better than what we have now" instead they pick it apart for any flaws then proclaim that is not workable because it is not 100% perfect every time
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