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minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThe people in charge really are uniquely unqualified… We might actually get better results randomly selecting people to lead each country.
minus-squareMightEnlightenYou@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThis is actually how democracy was originally, not like the modern US elitist version (“representative”) that got exported globally
minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThere’s definitely something to be said for not doing it randomly and having a sound selection process, but the protections against that process getting corrupted need to be more robust.
The people in charge really are uniquely unqualified… We might actually get better results randomly selecting people to lead each country.
This is actually how democracy was originally, not like the modern US elitist version (“representative”) that got exported globally
There’s definitely something to be said for not doing it randomly and having a sound selection process, but the protections against that process getting corrupted need to be more robust.