> > > Interesting idea: >> http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/ >> > > I see it's claimed to be "more efficient" and I can certainly see that. It > will allow the Koch brothers to directly buy the laws they want without > having to buy Congressmen. >
That is better, no? It means that their money is directly distributed amongst the voters instead of staying within the plutocracy. In the next round, the other voters will have more voting power and the Koch brothers less. The quadratic function leads to a situation where, if the Koch brothers wish to make an autocratic decision, they give all their power for the people to use in the next round. > > The statement,"Majority rule based on one-person-one-vote notoriously > results in tyranny of the majority–a large number of people who care only a > little about an outcome prevail over a minority that cares passionately, > resulting in a reduction of aggregate welfare." is ridiculous. How is it > tyranny of the majority that women are allowed abortions inspite of a > passionate minority that doesn't want them to? Having passionate > minorities decide public policy sounds like a definition of Hell to me. > I agree that the statement makes a weak case. I think it is mixing two things and not arguing for any of them properly: 1) That an uninformed majority can prevent the adoption of better policies for the whole, because it overpowers a minority of experts (a common claim of environmentalists, for example) 2) That the majority can use its power to interfere on private sphere of members of minorities (example: outlawing sexual relationships between people of the same gender) Telmo. > > Brent > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
