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TBH, $10M per senator per year is only $1 billion/year - a rounding error for America. And when a senator has F-U money, there is little incentive for him to ta

by fg6hr 6y ago

TBH, $10M per senator per year is only $1 billion/year - a rounding error for America. And when a senator has F-U money, there is little incentive for him to take dirty money (true sociopaths will take both, of course).

Ghjklov 6y ago
How do we select for normal, non-sociopath humanoids for political office?
- geoffpado 6y ago
  Random selection. It's like jury duty, but longer!
  - minitoar 6y ago
    To me this seems to be no worse and possibly more efficient than our current system.
    - bluquark 6y ago
      Ancient Athens did it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
    - cvlasdkv 6y ago
      I would argue significantly better than our current system. It would allow more diversity as well as bring knowledge about government back into communities.