Instead of elections, let’s use lotteries
This Utopian Statist piece comes with the minor caveat that: "No pure lottocratic system has ever existed, and so it’s important to note that much could go wrong. Randomly chosen representatives could prove to be incompetent or easily bewildered. Maybe a few people would dominate the discussions. Maybe the experts brought in to inform the policymaking would all be bought off and would convince us to buy the same corporate-sponsored policy we’re currently getting. There are hard design questions about how such a legislative system would interact with other branches of government, and questions about the coherence of policymaking, budgeting, taxation, and enforcement of policy."
It looks like the author's hope is that randomly chosen representatives would have the courage to adopt radical anti-business policies to tackle issues like "climate change".
It looks like the author's hope is that randomly chosen representatives would have the courage to adopt radical anti-business policies to tackle issues like "climate change".
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As you say, though, "but still"...with today's educational system and so many people still (even though they say they don't) trusting the mainstream media, I think even with a so-called "random" system, we'd most likely wind up worse off.
This guy sounds really desperate...the odds of this actually working in any reasonable way would be...well. like winning the lottery...;-)