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Something I've been wondering is if we could hugely expand education, research, and bureaucracy to employ people. What if we started requiring people to be actually engaged in politics? It's historically been impossible to have anything approaching true democracy because there's not enough time in the day for people to do all the work needing to be done AND properly engage in the democratic process, but with enough automation it might be possible. And if we ensure everyone is well educated then we eliminate the usual complaints of letting the masses actually decide on policy. There's essentially unlimited amounts of research into science, society, economics, politics, policy, etc that can be done and any amount of free time can be sucked up by debate over those things and teaching each other the results that nobody would need to be idle if they didn't want to. And if people don't want to engage directly in research or debate there'd be plenty of assistance needed by the people who do. It would require a complete change in how a lot of people value those things but I've been thinking it might actually be the best way forward.
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Well it's specifically to the problem of people needing jobs. If we're happy having people just muck about with hobbies and whatever then that works too. Enforcement would just be a fine or similar if you don't engage in politics like Australia's mandatory voting. Or maybe better you get paid for engaging in politics and simply don't get that money if you don't. As for rational debate I don't expect that necessarily, just more educated debate. And on teachers it would be the same system as now, aka no guarantee. It's not supposed to have a utopian result, just an opportunity to have more people engaged in the process.
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Dec 4, 2016 11:27
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