On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:12 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/4/2015 2:54 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 5 May 2015 at 00:12, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:03 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, very. I haven't read the paper yet but I hope when they say you pay >>> for votes that isn't meaning a plutocracy, but from some share of equally >>> distributed "voting capital" or something similar? So people can spend >>> their voting power on whatever they're concerned about? >>> >> >> The idea is very simple. You can buy x votes for (x * c)^2 dollars. In >> the end, all the money that was spent on buying votes is equally >> distributed by the voters. So the more the plutocracy spends its financial >> capital to influence policy, the more wealth equality you get. The author >> proposes a mathematical proof that such a system would stabilize on an >> equal distribution of political power. >> >> Of course, there are many real world details that could make this idea >> fail miserably, but it's fun to think about. >> >> Yes, if it's real money being spent it's kind of similar to the > current system, at least in countries where unlimited pre-election spending > is allowed. A lot of the time the rich - who own the media and so on - buy > the result they want, as per Mark Twain's comment. > > Where does the money go once it's bought votes? > > > It's redistributed. So after the Koch brothers spend $889,000,000 in the > next election to cast 29,816 votes, each of the 129 million voters will get > back $6.88 (plus the $1 they put in plus a share of whatever other big > spenders put in). Actually I think the Bros will be better off buying > attack ads with their billion. > Which is a better situation than we have now, where they can just buy the laws for much cheaper. 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.
