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by asdasdasdas5453 2084 days ago
There has been at least since 1951 since the famous publication of Arrow's impossibility theorem.

Extract from Wikipedia :

"The framework for Arrow's theorem assumes that we need to extract a preference order on a given set of options (outcomes). Each individual in the society (or equivalently, each decision criterion) gives a particular order of preferences on the set of outcomes. We are searching for a ranked voting electoral system, called a social welfare function (preference aggregation rule), which transforms the set of preferences (profile of preferences) into a single global societal preference order. Arrow's theorem says that if the decision-making body has at least two members and at least three options to decide among, then it is impossible to design a social welfare function that satisfies all these conditions (assumed to be a reasonable requirement of a fair electoral system) at once: [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...