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YES! I've long thought that once a person attains a certain level of success, roughly including college degree, certain military rank, managerial position of c
by toss1 4y ago
YES!
I've long thought that once a person attains a certain level of success, roughly including college degree, certain military rank, managerial position of certain scope at medium-large company, etc., they should be subject to random political service in state or federal legislature or executive branches. Perhaps after one term, they can stand for re-election for maximum of two terms, 10 years max, to take advantage of experience gained. Pay should be greater of a set level or 110% of their max earnings in previous 5yrs (so service is not punitive).
There would of course be some random evil and grifters, but their concentration and ability to embed for life would be very limited.
How we get from constitutional structure to there is another question.
- eru 4y agoI'm all in favour of sortition, but I don't think it's a good idea to force people to serve. Just pick randomly from all willing candidates to fill up parliament. Or even better: still have elections were people can vote for willing candidates, but instead of picking the winner by some kind of majority or proportionality scheme, you pick n ballots at random to fill up the n seats in parliament. (You can come up with your favourite scheme to handle the case when a single candidate gets multiple votes for her selected. Eg give her extra weight in decisions?) I would suggest using sortition only for instances where the law of large numbers helps you. Eg for filling up a parliament with a few hundred representatives, but not for picking a single president.