Quote from: Scarabus on July 15, 2025, 05:36:22 AM

Current idea of representative democracy is simple and looks fine: the population choses between several professional politicians in power. But in fact, this does not work: these professional politicians establish a “cartel agreement” (often even unconscious) and a monopoly of elites on information, and this prevents people who do not belong to elites from going into politics (only Zelensky maybe as exception). Here I suggest “democracy 2.0”, and the main aspect of it is a big number of referendums, which are performed e.g. each week. This system will motivate common people to study sciences like economics for better voting.
The referendums can be performed online; currently some decisions like DeFi can be used for guaranteeing that the votes will be calculated both closed (anonymous) and confidently/honestly. I can explain this later. Here I write the most important idea: these multiple referendums will not be referendums in strict sense, because they will not have a legal force; instead, they will reveal what people want, and the power will have to fulfill the will of nation. If a referendum was “profane”, theoretically the power can reject is in the interest of people, but it will have to explain this later, after leaving the power – otherwise the politicians who ignored the will of nation will be imprisoned via a decision of people via a new referendum. I mean that the people will be able to either imprison somebody, or vice versa give somebody a juridical immunity, via a referendum.

You can see how it works in real time in Switzerland. It is quite interesting to see how they vote several times a year on a variety of weird topics that rarely go ahead. I just love the system because is basically an antidote for populism. The moment people try to solve things "quick and easy" on simple yet wrong solutions they pay the price directly.

This has made the Swiss quite reluctant to populists.

Quote from: Scarabus on July 20, 2025, 08:36:25 AM

I suggest the members read about the Easterlin paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterlin_paradox

The economic growth itself does not do anybody happier. During last 500 years, the productivity of labor of the planet has increased maybe 1000 times, but the people haven't become happier because of this. Only psychological factors can make the society happier, and they include the aim in life, which helps people gather friends (for friendship people need to have common aims). A referendum each week will give people such aims, and this will end the loneliness and misanthropy...

I see...However it is not true. You cannot measure happiness accurately, much less 500 years ago.

But yes... people tend to be happy by "comparison".