links:
- https://www.fairvote.ca/open-list-proportional-representation/
- https://www.fairvote.ca/stv/
- https://www.fairvote.ca/mixed-member-proportional/
- Regional Proportional Representation
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The laws are currently written by lawyers for bankers
Changing to a system where laws are written by actual humans instead of demonoid homunculi will alleviate a lot of the pain revolving around the apathy and complexity pain points.
I worry that a lot of it comes from scale. It's expensive/tricky to scale up human flexability; I think I've seen well meaning people design systems they intended to be human, and got much worse results than the lawyers and bankers. There's some skill here.
Start low. Baloon tests cities, work out the kinks, increase the scope, etc. How we do pretty much anything.
Which systems are you referring to?
Administration in non-profits and schools mostly.
Administration has little to do with democracy and everything to do with capitalism.
They have been carving out education dollars to add more administrators over the last 30 years,leading to budgets strained for actual teaching while increasing the amount of bureaucracy.
All this just to ensure the populace doesn't get too smart and start thinking of implementing new systems like sortition and ranked choice.
Administrative costs are high in health care and education (which are not really the US federal government), but I can't find data on this for the labor costs to administrative professionals in government. Source?
Labor costs are high for the federal government, but I thought a lot of that was pensions + regular raises. I don't think these things should be attributed to capitalism run amok.