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>I want a republic where educated people have disproportional power to those who are less educated and produce less value I assume you see yourself in the educ
by poincaredisk 2y ago
>I want a republic where educated people have disproportional power to those who are less educated and produce less value
I assume you see yourself in the educated and valuable group?
And consequently, your choices and happiness is more important than some poor rural farmer? This sounds backward and feudalistic to me. You deserve the outcome of 50000 people's choices the same way they deserve outcome of your choices.
- resource_waste 2y ago> This sounds backward and feudalistic to me. Just because your emotions make you feel like that, doesnt mean there is any rational reason here. The modern era has shown humans likely do not have free will, thus things like pop Media has disproportionate impact on democractic elections. Makes me think its regressive to think that popular outcome is the best way to decide things like justice. What makes you think that is better than a scientific approach? At the end of the day, we want to limit pain and increase pleasure. What good is having a charlatan being president?
- rangestransform 2y agoEven equalizing political power between an urban and rural person would be a vast improvement, rather than the current setup where the minority rural wolves have the urban sheep for dinner https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-rural-america-needs-cities/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-rural-america-needs-c...