Administration has little to do with democracy and everything to do with capitalism.

They have been carving out education dollars to add more administrators over the last 30 years,leading to budgets strained for actual teaching while increasing the amount of bureaucracy.

All this just to ensure the populace doesn’t get too smart and start thinking of implementing new systems like sortition and ranked choice.

Im not sure i agree here. Liquid democracy seems the worst option as people would sell their votes to proxy brokers.

Landlords are germs, is that ok for vegans?

Sortition is more subject to bribery after being in office.

How do you figure? The current system is THE bribe system, there’s zero chance sorittion is worse.

Which systems are you referring to?

Saturnalia Gang rise up! Our time is now!

OP article was prolly written by Clavicle

If you do the extermination part you can go ahead and keep the lobster, ill be full already.

The laws are currently written by lawyers for bankers

Changing to a system where laws are written by actual humans instead of demonoid homunculi will alleviate a lot of the pain revolving around the apathy and complexity pain points.

Sortition is also an option, imo

Pee in the empty bottles

Signal is closest to WhatsApp but in a open source format.

Is there anything else as close?

No ear protection? Damn, shove some cotton balls in there at least!

Dope

Yeah, but then Hindenberg wouldnt make money shorting the stocks they “research”

Sword Art Online I believe

OP bashed the author/article, but it seems to be a fair synopsis of the Verge article its based on.

This was a cool line from the original article:

The upcoming “persistent universe” Epic is building with Disney is an example of the vision. “We announced that we’re working with Disney to build a Disney ecosystem that’s theirs, but it fully interoperates with the Fortnite ecosystem,”

Frameless glasses AND clear temples

You’re getting flamed because of the attitude, but you raise a salient point: will the elite face the same rationing?

Im doubtful AF

There is a level of forgiveness people cam give animals since most pets top out at non-speaking toddler levels of intelligence.

Humans OTOH are capable of much greater and therefore receive less grace/forgiveness/leeway