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Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by pdonis on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:48PM (#16795790)
> The reason we elect politicians rather than deciding how to deal with big, social issues like that ourselves is because it's a full time job.

I agree that being a politician is a full time job, but it's not the job you appear to think it is. The job of a politician is to get reelected. Any good the politician happens to do is a side effect that you can't count on happening again.

Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by munk-a on Monday April 09, 2018 @03:43PM (#16796290)
It's the ideal job we're electing them to fulfill, our broken election system makes this very much not their job, but the statement is correct in theory.
Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by pdonis on Monday April 09, 2018 @05:09PM (#16797022)
> It's the ideal job we're electing them to fulfill

But we don't elect ideal politicians, we elect real ones. There has never been any such thing as a political system where the "ideal job" actually existed, and I don't see any prospect of such a system ever existing. So the specifications of the "ideal job" are irrelevant; we need to look at the real jobs that real politicians actually do.