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Re:Quadratic Voting (2014) by cwp on Saturday May 02, 2015 @05:34PM (#9478659)
Your $100M got you 4 years in Congress. Let's say you can pass a key bill that'll make you more than $100M. It had better not piss people off very much, because in the next election they'll buy TWO votes each and you'll have to spend $400M to keep your law in place. In the meantime, all those poor people you outvoted are $50,000 richer.

The interesting thing about this is that the more votes you buy, the more you fund your political enemies.

Re:Quadratic Voting (2014) by learnstats2 on Saturday May 02, 2015 @05:50PM (#9478704)
No, you miss the point.

Being $X richer is now meaningless. Whoever is in power controls the currency and the time value of money sufficiently that they can manipulate the next round of voting.