One-step meta-democracy
from Diary 2023-12-26
One-step meta-democracy
nishio According to Schumpeter, the characteristic of democracy is competitiveness, which is selection by competition and quality due to multiple choices. One example of an implementation of a means of making Multiple Choice competitive is election. If we create another option for this "means" and implement competition and selection by quality, we can establish a one-step meta-democracy.
nishio In other words, another means is created to replace "elections". The need that elections fulfill is to collect people's opinions as data and reflect them in policies. So if you create a system where people feel that their opinions are reflected in policy, competition is established. Using the Internet would be better than paper and box voting.
nishio If that happens, and more people prefer the digital system for expressing opinions to the paper-and-box voting system, people will think that "this is more democratic This will create "legitimacy". Voting comes to be seen as an old-fashioned and imperfect system, and stopping voting becomes "more democratic".
nishio "digital voting", which keeps the form of "voting" and replaces only the means with digital means, is a company trying to streamline work with DX without changing the way work is done It's the same as "that way of doing business is inefficient, so it's another way of doing business. There are organizations that are convinced that "that way of doing things is inefficient, so let's change to another way of doing things," and there are organizations that are not convinced and will not change. Competition should occur between them.
nishio Audrey Tang said:.
Because Ethereum is open source, anyone can "folk" it if they wish. Such social innovation legitimizes governance in a way that is free from legitimacy by representative election.
social inovation legitimates governance
nishio Whether forking is easy or difficult is an important factor. Forking will take place where it is easy, and digital democracy without elections will be introduced.
decoupling of democracy and voting.
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