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> Blackmail doesn’t scale. If elections in my district are historically won by a 10-20% margin, and my corporation directly employs 20% of the people in the di
by wtracy 6y ago
> Blackmail doesn’t scale.
If elections in my district are historically won by a 10-20% margin, and my corporation directly employs 20% of the people in the district, then I think I could make blackmail scale just fine.
- mulmen 6y agoI’m not sure I follow. Are you threatening people’s jobs? Do you think you can reliably get away with that? This is the part where it doesn’t scale. You’re taking on an enormous risk to maybe swing a tight election by committing widespread extortion. It’s totally unrealistic and has nothing to do with voting in person, online or by mail. Your threat would apply to all of them.
- wtracy 6y ago> Are you threatening people’s jobs? Yes. > Do you think you can reliably get away with that? Robber barons did reliably get away with it throughout the nineteenth century. That's the whole reason that you don't get to take a copy of your ballot home today. > It’s totally unrealistic Well, somebody forgot to tell reality.
- mulmen 6y ago> That's the whole reason that you don't get to take a copy of your ballot home today. My ballot gets mailed to my house. I fill it out in my kitchen.