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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Desdinova posted:

The people who are voted upon to be experts in their chosen field would respond to a popular voted point upon an issue, and would be responded to. Industry shills with their paid for viewpoints would be disagreed with by unbribed others, people would be free to choose what seems correct to them given the evidence and reasoning.

A debate between millions of people can happen when the same points are condensed into a measured whole, with the stronger points argued for and against by everyone and voted by anyone who cares to vote. Rather than the current format of reading a thread, we could respond to a point made by tens of thousands of people and have that responded to.

In this way, experts (and anyone else in the scheme) would be responding to the favoured points, according to an Athenian democracy, in an online reformation.

This sounds like a nightmare. No one would want to participate in this system besides crazy people.

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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1305670128621686784?s=20

Ah I love direct democracy!

"This industry" here refers to the gig economy, this prop is trying to overturn a bill passed last year requiring Uber, Lyft, etc. to classify their workers as employees. The whole thing is being funded by these same companies, natch.

Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Sep 15, 2020

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Disnesquick posted:

Couldn't the threshold on prop 22 be removed with a subsequent prop?

Sure if you have $250 million laying around to pay for the campaign

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