Democracy
The more direct a democracy is, the more merit it has. Many countries are run by political elites and dynasties that only care about citizens when they need to scoop-up some votes come election: these are pseudo-democracies. People now want their voices heard more than ever, and hence the need to reform the system!
Guiding Principles:
General
- Make voting mandatory for those older than 16
- People who do not vote to be fined 25% of monthly avg. income
- Allow anyone to vote, even convicts, but differentiate voters through weighted voting system
- You lose ability to vote in cases of severe cognitive impairment
- Digital voting with biometric authentication
- Voting systems must be created and managed by a global consortium of intelligence agencies
- Should use blockchain
- Voting systems must be created and managed by a global consortium of intelligence agencies
A Weighted Voting System
- From “one person, one vote” to a weighted meritocratic system
- A voter would get more or less political leverage depending on how she scored on various important factors
- The two determinants of a voters political leverage are chosen survey-length (30%) and individual merit points (70%)
- Policy-survey is mandatory and manually completed by the voter
- Individual merit points are automatically calculated from pre-collected data, and impact leverage of survey answers
- Policy-surveys: transition from voting for parties to voting on issues
- A meritocratic and survey-based system for direct democracy
- Crodwsourced political ideology
- Voters have 3 months to answer the survey
- Crodwsourced political ideology
- Voters can choose between various survey lengths
- The 10 options are; 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 or 1000 questions
- Completing a longer survey leads to more leverage; e.g. answering 1000 Q leads to 9X leverage vis-a-vis 100 Q
- A meritocratic and survey-based system for direct democracy
- Individual Merit Points
- Level of civic engagement/activism
- E.g. active membership(s), donations, positions
- Chronological age: higher is better
- Parenting: genetic children, adoptions and/or foster children
- Should only parent children you can adequately care for
- Grade-Point-Average: from the highest attained educational level, with higher levels weighted more than lower
- Latest psychometric and biometric data collected
- Work experience: number of days in the work force
- Amount of taxes payed
- Investments in public and private enterprise: e.g. shares, bonds, and real-estate
- Years of residence in voting region
- Military service and position in army
- Conviction for crimes lead to subtraction of points
- Additional metric can be added as AI advance
- Level of civic engagement/activism
Policy and Topic Experts Implement the “Will of the People”
- Their duty is to implement as much “will of the people” as possible
- These experts only have the power to overrule results of policy-surveys if overwhelming evidence warrants
- Such decisions must be exhaustively defended in public
- These experts only have the power to overrule results of policy-surveys if overwhelming evidence warrants
- These experts must be selected according to merit
- Make it highly attractive to serve such public office to attract talent
Referendums
- Utilize referendums (local, global, etc.) more actively
- These are included as questions in the policy-surveys
Political Organizations
- Political parties, NGO’s, and other interest movements are highly valuable as catalysts and organizers of debate and ideas
- Political parties would not govern in the system presented herein
- From herd mind politics to individual thought
- From rule by political corruptible elites to TRUE “Will of the People”