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> Billionares are vastly outnumbered by thousandaires. While true, the billionaires' liquid and un-accounted-for dollars vastly outnumber the thousandaires'. I
by rosser 12y ago
> Billionares are vastly outnumbered by thousandaires.
While true, the billionaires' liquid and un-accounted-for dollars vastly outnumber the thousandaires'. If Joe Average has to choose between voting on something and paying his mortgage, while Jim Squillionaire is choosing between voting and buying another jet (yes, hyperbole; my point still obtains), guess whose votes you're more likely to see...
- SamReidHughes 12y agoI just explained why spending $1 billion on votes won't affect the outcome of politics, in the other sentence of my post, that you didn't quote. That's part of the reason the cost of votes is nonlinear in this scheme.
- PepeGomez 12y agoYou didn't explain anything, you only provided a cryptic analogy.
- SamReidHughes 12y agoDon't you have your square roots memorized? 31600 is approximately the square root of a billion. The U.S. population is about 316 million.
- glenweyl 12y agoThat is the point of the software!
- sukilot 12y agoThat's easy to fix with a social security-like scheme that forces everyone to spend at least $1000 on voting.