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The athenians had a way to kill lobbying / corruption: Make it a democracy with direct participation, removing professional politics out of the equation. If ev
by enqk 15y ago
The athenians had a way to kill lobbying / corruption:
Make it a democracy with direct participation, removing professional politics out of the equation. If everyone is participating in any vote (and this should scale now much nicely thanks to technology) and magistrates / executive branches were randomly selected for short mandates and with oversee of the complete electorate, then the only person to corrupt would be the citizens themselves. And that is a lot more expensive.