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My post was a little tongue in cheek. I don't think a voting sysyem necessarily leads to an aristocracy/oligarchy. But it certainly can, and it needs to be care
by thayne 6y ago
My post was a little tongue in cheek. I don't think a voting sysyem necessarily leads to an aristocracy/oligarchy. But it certainly can, and it needs to be carefully crafted to avoid that.
- eru 6y agoWell, voting leads to specialisation of labour, and thus a political caste. The sortition system I sketched would still reward specialisation of labour, but there would be fewer threshold effects: if you convince thirty friends friends to ballot for you, you'd have a ten times higher chance to make it into parliament compared to only convincing three friends. With voting you have threshold effects. In all but the smallest towns, getting thirty people to vote for you has exactly the same outcome as zero votes.