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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by dfischer on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:12PM (#19823079)
I like the idea of voting quadratically with money. Every vote scales with cost. Instead of hiding the reality, just expose it and limit it with quadratic scaling.
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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by MaxBarraclough on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:56PM (#19823299)
And people with no disposable income get zero representation, and aren't even worth pandering lip service.

Doesn't sound sustainable, but it's an interesting idea to play with. You could adjust the price-point to make it more or less price-competitive with lobbying and conventional bribery, and to serve as a sort of tax. Might make for a good cyberpunk setting.

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by dfischer on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @01:27PM (#19851531)
Well one vote is $1. The economies of scale fit in really quickly with manipulation. Second $4 and so on.
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