the point is, Australians in particular are very very quick to hype their system and they have a fairly good understanding of the alleged benefits of their sys

the point is, Australians in particular are very very quick to hype their system and they have a fairly good understanding of the alleged benefits of their system and they get told this over and over throughout their schooling and by the electoral commission but not once have I ever seen any Australian ask themselves if the alleged benefits of their systems are really true in the first place, and even if they are, what the inescapable downsides of their system are it doesn't even occur to them, the question doesn't even make sense to them as for this quadratic one, try the online demo they made at https://www.economist.com/interactives/2021/12/18/quadratic-voting https://www.economist.com/interactives/2021/12/18/quadratic-... it's cool but tbh I would rather have infinite points to spend, at which point you might as well have binary endorse / oppose votes (maybe with an added option abstain) point being that I don't think the intensity of my endorsement of policies to combat climate change should cost anything for my equally intense endorsement of paying reparations for colonialism - I consider both incredibly important and essential policies