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Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporat... by Daishiman on Monday August 31, 2015 @11:30PM (#10150566)
The point where you realize that running a society is pretty fucking hard and that there's a lot of really complex problems for which most people certainly have no way to inform themselves in sufficient speed?
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Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporat... by JoshTriplett on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @01:30AM (#10150886)
> running a society

Except this isn't about running a society, it's about running a government. There's a major difference.

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Re:Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporat... by Daishiman on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @03:45AM (#10151192)
If your government sucks its impact on society is pretty much one the most important things in the lives of a country's people that can happen. Unless you've outsourced city planning, health code regulations, pollution management, and other essentials to a third party, it's as close as it gets. And someone's in charge of putting the legions of bureaucrats and technicians doing those things.
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