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Another angle to diffuse their power here is the idea of radical transparency. Once everything is public, and you have nothing to hide, it is very difficult to
by chevman 4y ago
Another angle to diffuse their power here is the idea of radical transparency.
Once everything is public, and you have nothing to hide, it is very difficult to be blackmailed or coerced in the traditional ways govts have thought about this tactic.
- sneak 4y agoYou're not going to find hundreds of people to staff a legislature (or the tens of thousands that comprise their personal and professional staff) that aren't vulnerable to extortion by disclosing their use of sex workers, drugs, deviant behavior, illicit cash payments to cover up same, etc - nor should you! It's just not going to happen. Furthermore, even if you believe in such systems, you want to optimize for leadership, vision, and fairness, not unextortability. Otherwise you just get a calcified bunch of squares running things. Any governing body large enough to manage all of the affairs of a country of hundreds of millions or billions of people is going to comprise in the thousands of people, and there will be dirt for the finding on almost all of them. Remember, you don't need actual proof - you just need enough circumstantial evidence that the threat of cancellation/impeachment/resignation/etc is credible.