A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive

Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by ulucs on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:07AM (#19818034)

Coordinated groups have voting power of sqrt(total money)*sqrt(number of individuals), uncoordinated ones have sqrt(money). If you are for some cause, you should just find like-minded individuals and pool your total money. They have very limited incentive for keeping the money for themselves because they also agree with you on the issue.

Then the other side should also coordinate tightly in this manner, and now you have a new problem: polarization.

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by anigbrowl on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:15PM (#19841543)

Yeah but you're assuming people naturally line up in two camps. It's possible that you've been inadvertently trained to think this way if you inhabit a duopolistic society.

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by Jolter on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:28PM (#19819793)

Money?

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by mlillie on Friday May 03, 2019 @12:55PM (#19820074)

100 'dollars' to spend

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