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> If Americans wanted public administrators who weren't so corrupt, they would be chosen by sortition for limited terms from professional societies You should

> If Americans wanted public administrators who weren't so corrupt, they would be chosen by sortition for limited terms from professional societies You should leave out “from professional societies”. Having professional societies involved like this would totally corrupt both them and society.

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
> totally corrupt both them and society. How? There would be no political campaigns, no billionaire patrons, no popularity contests, and no way to influence who is chosen. Picking low information, uneducated people wouldn't work. Furthermore, the vast majority of people without advanced degrees are barely literate (through no fault of their own) because of the business theater of insisting on only hiring candidates with college degrees, which has led to a steady increase in cost but a decline in quality of undergraduate studies. The undergraduate side of US universities is nothing like they were pre-1940. Even high school education is a shadow of its former self. Even public high schools in 1938 America used to teach Latin and conversational French to pupils not destined for academia.
- JohnFen 2y ago
  > There would be no political campaigns, no billionaire patrons, no popularity contests, and no way to influence who is chosen. Hmmm... I think I have a very different perception of "professional societies" than you do. I don't see how drawing from their pools would stop any of that.