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The market is not some entity that exists outside of human society, it's a product of that society. And "one person one vote" is a foundational principle of ho
by idlewords 12y ago
The market is not some entity that exists outside of human society, it's a product of that society. And "one person one vote" is a foundational principle of how we organize ourselves as a society in the first place. Demanding that someone make economic or legal arguments for it is a category error. It's the bedrock that law and economic life stand upon.
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- baddox 12y agoI addressed that in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8209696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8209696 I don't think that "one vote per person" is so fundamental that many people would continue to advocate it if they truly believed that some other system would lead to a better life for everyone in the society.
- 21echoes 12y agosure, but i think the reason no one has stopped advocating for it is that very few people believe that "some other system would lead to a better life for everyone in the society", especially seeing as many people count "having a voice in the structure of my society" as one of the very things that makes life good for them.
- baddox 12y agoI agree. But that also means that it's not really a moral axiom, so the moral argument is insufficient.