In terms of guessing how many objects are in that box, there was this concept about the average of a population. This is what this article on the box reminds me of in terms of randomly assigning by way of a lottery political positions within a population. Is it possible that we could fare better underneath such kind of a lottery system than the system where we have career politicians?
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 3:27
There could be really great things that could happen, but we don't know because those folks, you need a lot of money to run for office and even win. And it doesn't matter how smart or qualified you are or you got to be super charismatic. But then still, you got to get people to give you the money. So yeah, I think it could be good. If not super, not super random. Like we didn't define how random you meant
Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 4:16
What would be the effects of that? Would we have as many people who do not have faith in our voting system as we do now, if we had a system in which any person from the civic population can be pulled to help facilitate the voting process, I think this is what this is talking about. So I just use the voting process as one example
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:39
Wow. I'm looking at this at two levels, but the article really hit something that resonated with me so strongly about if there was sort of a lottery program think they call a lotocracy or something. I forget how they phrase it, but there would be manipulation of that process. But at least it's overt as opposed to what's going on now, which is all these secret lobbying groups, like everything would be up to a public vote
Like, how do you make people empathize and understand each other? And I thought the lottery system would be a great way of doing that. And sorry, back to this article that talked about the brain damage. With that understanding, then career politicians are huge victims of this. Right