On 06 May 2015, at 08:41, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2015-05-06 3:51 GMT+02:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>:
On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, LizR wrote:
On 5 May 2015 at 11:12, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
Ah, I see. Since the various interest groups already spend millions
on spreading their views via various media, presumably one caveat
with QV would be that any form of political advertising or support
for parties or editorialising "outside" the system would be
illegal, and heavily penailsed if it occurred - otherwise the
current system is far more efficient from the viewpoint of the 1%,
and they will just stick with using their newspapers and TV
channels to support their chosen candidates.
I think you're right that such a restriction would be needed; but I
don't know whether it's actually proposed that way. I've never
studied voting systems much beyond Arrow's theorem, but I know a
mathematician who's writing a book about various systems. He's not
impressed by quadratic voting:
http://rangevoting.org/MonetizedRV.html
Brent
But what would prevent the rich to invest a one time big thing that
would outlaw quadratic voting, ensure their wealth and still gives
them power through a dictator ship ?
It's like you have 3 wishes... The first, I want to have an infinity
of wishes... They would took over the system as soon as it is in
place (if they're evil... but that's what is implied here imo).
We should perhaps vote for ideas and anonymous programs, without
financial lobbying. The politicians would be any citizen doing a
social service.
Financial lobbying should not exist, it transforms sickness into an
economical value, making the health politics into an industry of
sickness. The hiding of the fact that cannabis can cure cancer
illustrates this all too well. Programmed obsolescence (and economical
and ecological nonsense) illustrates it too.
Bruno
Quentin
Or am I missing the point?
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