Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry

Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by nostrademons on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:30PM (#18652381)

There's also my favorite subtle fix to U.S. democracy - require all members of Congress to reside full-time in their districts and conduct all government business electronically. Now instead of hiring 1 lobbyist who can wine & dine 535 members of Congress and build personal relationships with every one, you have to hire 535 lobbyists who can each wine & dine 1 member of Congress and have to compete with their actual constituents & neighbors for social attention.

This also has a number of other benefits to democracy, notably that social science has shown that our allegiance is to those who we are in closest proximity daily with (i.e. representatives might actually represent their constituents instead of the political class) and it disincentivizes gerrymandering (if you're gonna shove all the black people in one district, you're gonna be living with them).

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Re:Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Acr... by munk-a on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:35PM (#18652405)

I hadn't seen this proposal before but that actually makes a lot of sense and would probably help out quite a bit.

There are concerns with logistics and security when it comes to electronically submitted votes for elections (i.e. e-voting) but this sort of a solution side steps any concerns like that, heck it could be voting by show of hands over a video chat.

I do disagree with the gerrymandering portion though, I think the US really needs to adopt a proportional representation system (I'm partial to MMP) which would just make any attempt at gerrymandering irrelevant, sure you can win a particular seat if you gerrymander, but the amount you can effect overall representation would be quite minimal.

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