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Politics is the OG bad system. Because politicians literally write the rules of the system, it's incredibly difficult to prevent abuse, bad incentives, and ine
by djoldman 1y ago
Politics is the OG bad system.
Because politicians literally write the rules of the system, it's incredibly difficult to prevent abuse, bad incentives, and inefficiency.
One of the most fundamentally broken aspects of the US system is that:
1. politicians stay in power by being elected.
2. people are not required to vote and casting a vote incurs a cost (time, travel, expense), therefore not everyone votes.
3. politicians just have to get the votes of the fraction of people who actually do vote and can ignore those who don't.
- antisthenes 1y agoPoliticians are just an extension of the ruling class. Under capitalism, that is large capitalists. What may seem like abuse and bad incentives to YOU are perfectly aligned goals for THEM.
- Xss3 1y agoWe could fix those issues and create some new ones with direct democracy via blockchain voting. Want a bandaid for people voting randomly? Throw in a randomly (llm?) generated question about the policy they're voting on and if they get it correct, showing some rudimentary understanding of the policy, they can vote.