Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
How would you design a governance system that allows people to pay for the policies they want (direct bribery) but doesn't become a plutocracy (where only the rich have a voice)?
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osama
@osama
pretty easy actually- 1member: 1vote and financial returns/dividends are proportional to $ staked/invested/provided hard part- getting to 1member (aka Sybil resistance or equiv)
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
you can bribe voters
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osama
@osama
yup! Didn’t redacted cartel make an entire product out of briberies for treasuries? bribes/influence are just a tool for opinion formation? I believe it will almost always exist hand in hand with all voting structures b/c humans would want to discuss and talk?
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
did not know about redacted cartel. Hmm, but won't the rich be the ones that can best bribe the voters?
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osama
@osama
won’t they always? that’s what happens in most present day democracies: people are either directly paid, socially pressured/influenced or indirectly paid. is there a utopian way to stop “rich” from bribing? idk … It’s not about money. It’s never been about resources ($, etc) rather influence on their cont
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osama
@osama
if you somehow eradicate bribing. Social influence won’t go — the currency will change. It’s like believing a “group of few rich control the world”. Humans are really complex esp in a group. You always have a anomalies/mutants no matter how much we think we’ve modelled society
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osama
@osama
the one thing we’ve proven as a species is that over a long enough horizon, anything that threatens our collective existence or dampens growth is pruned out. same is true for governance/daos/systems?
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