> encourage these young people to run for office Which is raising another, more underlying problem: Why do we as a society have no means to change stuff by vot

> encourage these young people to run for office Which is raising another, more underlying problem: Why do we as a society have no means to change stuff by voting on it, like in a, as it is called, "democracy"? Why is the only practicable way to change something like the filesharing prohibition, as you suggest, to give up everything else and run for a political office? > We need to turn this thought experiment into reality, get people into the gears and sockets of our society What you're suggesting is basically trying to inject "our" people into the ruling caste because it is completely decoupled from the ruled one. I'd rather say that we simply need significantly more democracy.