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0 pointsfragmede1y ago0 comments

> The billionaires somehow think their current wealth protects them from a hungry mob.

Luigi Mangione aside, hasn't it? Their wealth gets spent on getting the hungry mob to fight amongst themselves about trans rights and abortion and government efficiency and it seems to have been pretty effective because we're no longer talking about taxing the rich and making life better for as many people as possible, instead we're talking about Elon Musk.

No one's storming the terrace at Mar a Lago over the price of eggs.

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dumbledoren1y ago

There was another, recent incident in which some guy shot a few rounds to a healthcare exec's window in the night...

AstralStorm1y ago

The funny but tragic thing is why would you even try to do it that way rather than skip past all this nonsense by building a new separate equitable system that is dictator-proof.

Why not literally leave them in the dust, rather than negotiate with terrorists or try to change their mind?

The more they try to push back, the more we'll fix it to be resilient to it, and despite the resources and threats at their disposal we have to realize we actually have more.

collingreen1y ago

What would that look like?

My jaded, knee jerk response was going to be "build a dictator proof system and the world will build a better dictator". I don't want to be hopeless on this so I'm honestly asking about your ideas about it.

TFYS1y ago

We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective. Large concentrations of power emerge because we haven't yet discovered how to make effective decisions democratically. Representative democracy is not good enough. We need a robust system of direct democracy capable of producing decisions that are at least as good as those made by a skilled small group.

Innovations like blockchains and LLMs might finally enable us to develop such a system.

sangnoir1y ago

> We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective

Getting rid of First past the post voting systems will reduce incidents of extremism. Ranked choice voting, multiparty systems amd coalition governments would be an improvement on the current American status quo.

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CMCDragonkai1y ago

Yes this is correct - which is why the crypto infrastructure is just bootstrapping a much more important piece of political infrastructure.

tomrod1y ago

Social Choice Theory begs to differ that we don't understand voting structure in great detail.

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