Autore: Alec Spier Data: To: System undo crew Oggetto: Re: [unSYSTEM] Rethinking cryptocurrency as accountable distributed
decisionmaking
Violence has its place.
>On 05/10/2014 08:33 PM, Kristov Atlas wrote: >> >>> The problem is no accountability, voters are locked in once the decision is made. This made sense in the days of horseback travel, but in a post-bitcoin world this idea is preposterous. Accountability is necessary all the time, and applying the metaphors and tools of Bitcoin we can achieve it. >>> >> No software can solve the issue of initiating violence. This is the actual problem with politics, not accountability. Direct democracy might be an incremental improvement, but I'd rather flip the board rather than rearranging our chess pieces. It's time to evolve. > >I agree. Using software to incrementally improve voting is putting >lipstick on a pig. > >Enlightenment is the recognition that voting as a mechanism is incapable >of conveying legitimacy (if ethics really were derived from a majority >consensus, then we wouldn't recognize gang rape as evil). > >The lawmaking process is not broken because of a failure in the election >systems - it's broken because it shouldn't exist. > >_______________________________________________ >unSYSTEM mailing list: http://unsystem.net >https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/unsystem _______________________________________________ unSYSTEM mailing list: http://unsystem.nethttps://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/unsystem
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