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Do you have a form of government you invented/conceived, either as an idea or for fiction (or a favorite from someone else)? How does it work? (lemmy.ml)

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As kids, we're told only people who go to college/university for politics/economics/law are qualifiable to make/run a country. As adults, we see no nation these "qualified" adults form actually work as a nation, with all manifesto-driven governments failing. Which to me validates the ambitions of all political theorist amateurs, especially as there are higher hopes now that anything an amateur might throw at the wall can stick. Here's my favorite from a friend.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is called liquid democracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy

[–] TropicalDingdong 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah exactly. Like maybe there is some policy on housing I like your position on, so I can delegate my vote to you on this matter. But maybe I have a background in climate and focus on those issues, and hold delegates for that specific domain.

Its like, an actual use case for crypto blockchain (not as money, but as ledger).

Maybe you could organize a company/ cooperative this way?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that'd just move lobbying from governments to people. So there'd be far more propaganda and garbage. Politicians would be becoming "power delegates", collecting as many people's votes as possible. Then we'd end up with another representative democracy (or whatever it's called to vote for people who then vote for policies)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Except it sounds like there are no elections for these new reps and people would be able to change their delegate at will whenever they want? But if it’s on a crypto-style ledger then it would have to either cost something (to prevent abuse) to change or be free after X period or on an election cycle. Definitely an interesting thought.

[–] VelvetStorm 1 points 3 months ago

And what happens when someone has a ton of votes and a company pays them to use those votes in a way the people don't like?