• dubyakay@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    A government could be good. In theory:

    • one year terms for elected individuals in public offices
    • no second term
    • getting elected is a random draw (akin to jury duty) based on the individuals’ capabilities
    • authority limited in scope within city states

    I’m sure there’s other ideas regarding this.

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      getting elected is a random draw (akin to jury duty) based on the individuals’ capabilities

      Who asseses people’s capabilities in this system? As they are likely the most powerful people.

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      With 1 year and no second term they’re just gonna steal everything within their reach from day 1, so we need to balance it with:

      • all public servants live under full transparency, 24/7 body cams etc for years after, financial transparency for life
      • 2x to all prison sentences while serving
      • a well-oiled practice to jail everyone who ain’t a total saint

      Then, maybe.

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        1 year ago

        It’d need to be a system that automates itself instead of needing surveillance. Something that simply disincentivizes corruption.

    • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
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      Perhaps. But I think there are other criteria that need to be met to qualify as a good government. For example if any government facilitated an economy of consumerism and infinite growth capitalism, but also forbid itself from doing anything meaningful to impede the resulting collapse, then I wouldn’t call that good. And I suspect that these bullet points would not prevent consumerism from developing in a democracy that is otherwise similar to the ones that many of us live in.

    • uralsolo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      If you don’t change the economic system then you’ll just run into exactly the same problems as we already have. The one year term elected officials will be handed pre-written legislation by corporations, they’ll be heavily incentivized to pass it, if they don’t it’ll be a short turn around before the people with Capital can try again, and if they instead try to pass their own legislation that Capital doesn’t approve of it they’ll get the next person to undo it.