One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means

Re:One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means by marcus_holmes on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:08PM (#16751558)

Competency in what? The best person to make decisions may not be the best person to talk about those decisions in front of a camera, or the best person to inspire confidence in those decisions in a nation of (by definition) less-competent people who (again by definition) would have made the decision differently.

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Re:One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means by mpweiher on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:17AM (#16752428)

Yep, any way you have of measuring competency is going to be inadequate and subject to gaming.

And it may be exactly the fact that you can't measure it accurately that makes it not "harden into a new social class without room in it for others."

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Re:One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means by njarboe on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:15AM (#16755510)

Well, for example, take the medical profession. There are of course many problems with how doctors are trained and licensed. The AMA might do well with a shake up. But in America you are not getting a license to practice without demonstrating a huge amount of skill, dedication, and competence. Your cousin who is already a doctor doesn't just get to say, "You are in". Or you just have to pay some large amount of money to the right person.

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Re:One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means by marcus_holmes on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:22AM (#16764622)

um.. it costs a LOT of money to become a doctor in America.

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