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Baobab

(4,667 posts)
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 05:38 PM Apr 2016

What would Politics Without Politicians Look Like?

If you could create a system that was totally based on democratic government without politicians what would it look like?

lets assume that people - everybody- has a lot more time than today, because society basically is automated. We have the Internet and virtual reality so people can "be" anywhere at any time, so we could create a system of direct democracy.

How would that work?

Would it work?

Suppose some people want one system and some people want another?

Direct democracy could shift the balance of power away from corporations and give people some power again, give people standing, when now we increasingly have none..

It could in theory eliminate the principal agent problem posed by politicians and corruption and regulatory and state capture..

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