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Funny enough, that's actually a sound proposal and is "somewhat" implemented as high ranking officials are expected to always be with someone documenting their
by mrtksn 2y ago
Funny enough, that's actually a sound proposal and is "somewhat" implemented as high ranking officials are expected to always be with someone documenting their acts. It is usually considered scandalous when they ditch their translator or secretary and talk with other high ranking officials in complete secrecy.
It makes all the sense to have politicians %100 monitored %100 of the time. Store it in encrypted blackbox and if something big enough happens, then unlock it.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agoLet's be fair, in a real democracy, there would be no government secrets... I mean.. we're paying for all that, we need to know. Imagine being an owner of a company, and having some middle managers talking stuff in secret and saying that you don't need to know stuff, just let them use the money, and you don't even get to see the contracts.
- mrtksn 2y agoThere would be government secrets as long as there's more that 1 country. Also, unlike companies countries have subjects can be bad actors and there's no way to get rid of, so some stuff will have to a secret even if the world is run by a single government.
- cjpearson 2y agoIt's not too different in the corporate world. I'm an owner of Apple, Google, Microsoft and others and they refuse to divulge their secrets to me. I can't see their contracts, strategy documents or root passwords.
- floydnoel 2y agoyou have a choice of whether to own Apple or Google. the government offers no such choice, it is a monopoly. the government is not a corporation.
- tankenmate 2y agoOf the people, by the people, for the people. In a properly functioning democracy the government should be the monopoly of the people.
- Wytwwww 2y agoThat would be nice but it would put you at a significant disadvantage compared to authoritarian/totalitarian states which would certainly have very terrible consequences.
- fsflover 2y agoYou can say the same about the decision making: in a democracy it's hard to agree on an action, whereas a dictator can just do anything.