What I am more interested in seeing, hopefully, in the future is the ability to cast citizens' votes directly on any matter, act, bill, etc., and get rid of the representatives in parliament/congress/etc. It is more transparent that way, and end lobbying with all the corruption it has. No more traditional voting for a "person" anymore and relying on trust; rather, you trust no one and vote directly. We have the proper digital infrastructure and technology to make it happen. We are far more connected than we were back when these ancient processes were created. That way, it's truly the power of the people compared to the power of whoever can get the wealthy to support their campaign. If this won't work "because a lot of people are ignorant!" then you put effort into educating them. Otherwise, it also means our current democracies are nothing but a charade to fool the public with a false illusion of choices.
You never get rid of these people, you just move who they are.
Now Mr Beast and whoever is slipping him cash is your political representative because of the power of their parasocial relationships.
>"because a lot of people are ignorant!" then you put effort into educating them.
This won't work, not because people are ignorant, but because of entropy.
As a human you can only learn so much so fast and you don't have time to learn everything that a government knows or does. You're going to remain ignorant on most complicated things because that's the default state of the universe. People with money/power still have more time and effort available to push the vote their way, and they will target the education first (much like right now).
Regardless of ignorance, people don't vote even every year or two, because it's inconvenient, they're busy, and they become cynical after months of negative campaigning on both sides. We need "assigned voting" where you can assign your vote to another person, who then can assign their votes to another person, etc, creating a chain of voting hierarchy such that a few people control large numbers of aggregate votes, and in most cases that's enough to decide things and get things done. People can always un-assign/re-assign their votes (shifting the political landscape), or even override their assigned vote on a particular bill, if they disagree with their "elected" representative.
It's pretty frustrating when something advertises itself as open source and yet there's no link to its source to be found. There's even a footer that says "Polis is powered by support from people like you. Contribute here." But it's just a financial donation link.
tamimio|17 days ago
pixl97|16 days ago
>and end lobbying with all the corruption it has.
You never get rid of these people, you just move who they are.
Now Mr Beast and whoever is slipping him cash is your political representative because of the power of their parasocial relationships.
>"because a lot of people are ignorant!" then you put effort into educating them.
This won't work, not because people are ignorant, but because of entropy.
As a human you can only learn so much so fast and you don't have time to learn everything that a government knows or does. You're going to remain ignorant on most complicated things because that's the default state of the universe. People with money/power still have more time and effort available to push the vote their way, and they will target the education first (much like right now).
saulpw|16 days ago
Defletter|16 days ago