One vote per person is unnatural.
Toyotaka Sakai (2020)
toyotaka_sakai weighting the votes is natural as an idea. People's personalities, abilities, and interests are all different. Rather, the current one vote per person without weighting is non-intuitive and "unnatural. And the artifact of institutions is not good because it is natural or bad because it is unnatural.
toyotaka_sakai In many cases, if we start talking about weights, the discussion (and reality) is likely to start like hell. In many cases, the practical wisdom is to stop messing around with the weights because it would start a hell of a discussion (and reality). It's very easy to start a discriminatory discussion.
toyotaka_sakai In this regard, Quadratic Voting is rather straightforward. Everyone has 100 credits equally, and they cast x credits (and get √x votes) on the theme that they are interested in. I guess the key to the design is how to maintain the "Equality for all" setting while allowing people to exert a strong influence on themes that are closely related to them.
toyotaka_sakai An example of a weighted majority voting system would be the EU Parliament. Degressive Proportionality, which means that even if a country's population doubles, the number of members that can be sent to the EU Parliament does not increase until it doubles. It is a mechanism to reduce the relative influence of large countries like France and Germany. Of course, they do that on purpose.
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