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Laeserin · 9w
The idea that any craziness can be justified by polling the majority is crazy. The majority is sometimes crazy. A pure democracy is a menace. Majority rule, unfettered by the rule of law and separatio...
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If 80% of the population is incapable of being able to participate in a democracy... then it follows that the government should be doing 80% or so fewer things... such that the few things they do do are so simple that the 80% can understand those things.
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Laeserin · 9w
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 Shrink all governments to 20% of their current size, and then we'll see if we can't get it down, further, from there.
nami · 9w
You can read the Pareto principle the other way though, which is that 20% of the population is causing 80% of the problems. Which means that the corrupted 20% can establish a government of their choice. So the solution might be, to fight the corruption, not reducing the government. Depends on the ca...