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Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea

theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It took me way too long to realize that a lot of people think like you do and then project it onto the rest of us.

No. If I’m being honest, I would pass at the chance to have power. I’m not arrogant enough to believe that I’d do the right thing with it. I have a small handful of people who have suffered at my hands throughout my life and I have a hard enough time sleeping over that.

To know that I was making the quality of life worse for people who I’d never even know for my own sake would break me. I’d deserve it too.

Unfortunately, the people who I’ve know that exercise power over their fellow man don’t seem to lose a wink of sleep. They justify everything, but they’re miserable and they don’t have any real friends. They’re constantly paranoid that people are out to take something from them because they are. Some people try to reach the pockets above the foot on their back to take what they can from the situation. I can’t relate to them either, but I can at least empathize with them.

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0x0@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Power corrupts, dilute it as much as possible.

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Buttons@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We need a branch of government filled with random people. Politicians are people who seek power, the type of person that wins big elections is not a normal person, thus, normal people are not represented in government.

In the US, I wish the house were filled with random people. Randomly select 3 people for each house seat, have the 3 people debate and explain their personal beliefs, and then people vote. This would fill the seat with someone who is mostly likeable, but is still a normal person and not a career politician.

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- Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There is the G1000 initiative in Belgium and the Netherlands. The idea is to have the legislative body be random people. There are even towns that already have implemented it. The concept is simple enough: representative democracy is inherently flawed, so just have legislators drawn by a lottery. With a high enough amount of people, you will get a near perfect representation of the population proportionally represented. For national bodies, the proposal is to have 1000 legislators, hence the number.
  
  Personally I quite like the idea, especially if it were to be paired with a technocratic executive branch.
  
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  - dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Too bad the Netherlands is about to go down the shitter with their mini-Hitler.
    
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