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That's the core issue behind the whole situation, really. Electing people? That's totally backwards and unreliable. You should be voting on ideas and have people come in to fill the demand.

This is why I appreciate interest in systems like futarchy, even if the specific mechanics behind futarchy itself might be flawed.

Of course, one could say that moving away from this is just an unrealistic ideal. That's probably the case, indeed. But then "building tools to get people shoved out of office next election cycle" is pretty much doomed to be a perpetual rat race, not unlike trying to use a blacklist to catch an ever growing number of malicious ad networks, or keeping up with a reverse engineered implementation of a proprietary protocol from a vendor who has no qualms with constantly breaking API and ABI compatibility to leave you in the dust.




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