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by martin82 6 days ago
Voting has never worked to bring competence into the government. Exhibit A: All governments of the world, right now.
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Random allocation of citizens to seats might actually make for a better government.

We could try that one, since the MBAs-and-lawyers clique with money/influence have been doing a poor job lately.

> Random allocation of citizens to seats might actually make for a better government.

Not only that, but that would be actually democratic concept. Greeks long ago found that elective systems are in the end oligarchies.