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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by advertising on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:14PM (#11970953)
Does democracy not scale very well when the population is too large to personally know your representatives?
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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by netcan on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:19PM (#11971008)
Representation is itself a scaling hack :).

Plato and aristotle had the perfect number at 5000, the number of people who can hear a speaker in a forum. Plus, their slaves, servants, women and other property.

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