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They're suggesting 'government by jury', but what I expect it will turn out to be is 'government by the permanent bureaucracy'. The staffers who are there all t
by brianolson 4y ago
They're suggesting 'government by jury', but what I expect it will turn out to be is 'government by the permanent bureaucracy'. The staffers who are there all the time will make suggestions to the current jury that is making decisions, and those decisions will probably 90% go with what the staffers suggest.
- CPLX 4y agoIn their defense this is our current system, instead our lottery is confined to a smaller group of rich megalomaniacs.
- trowawee 4y agoRight, the current system is 40% government via bureaucracy, 50% government via lobbyists/industry (including the parts of the bureaucracy that have been fully captured by industry), and 10% "the kind of freaks who run for and win public office" (who I think we should treat with reflexive suspicion on principle, even when I nominally agree with them). It's not at all clear to me that bureaucrats + lottery system would be worse, and it seems likely it'd be better.