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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Proposed one-sentence definition of democracy (or liberalism?) that's different from any I've seen: **The government feels more like a game than like a player.** That is, it's an environment for different people to interact, cooperate, compete etc, and not an actor exercising its own agency / intentionality.
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polynya
@polynya
Autocracies have seen bloody wars, marriages, alliances etc. - indeed, many older board games are inspired by these. Or, anarchies or weak democracies were autocrats swoop in to fill the power vaccuum. So, it's a game regardless, but what makes democracies unique is the game includes all/most of its citizens
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Hudson Jameson
@hudsonjameson
I like this: "The government is 95% LARPers and 5% coordination warriors."
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ManuAlzuru🥑
@manu
Its definition could evolve, but right now liberal democracy feels to me like “an opaque form of governance where financial capital and retaining power are the goals and not the wellbeing of the citizens”
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
What if it’s both? Like the matrix 😜
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grunt.eth
@grunt.eth
A consensus mechanism
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gmworld
@gmworld.eth
Agreed. For me, it is more like they are playing farming SIMS using everyone as a utility/commodity
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Adam
@adam-
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geohookah
@geohookah
Good
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a1z2
@a1z2
Not a huge fan of this Maybe “all can design the game”
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
@deanpierce.eth
I like to think of the role of government as trying to deliver an attractive standard of living to people in a certain geographical area. Democracy is the mechanism whereby the allocation of resources is aligned with the general population.
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nicovrg
@nicovrg
direct democracy is markets people expressing their opinion through their consumption ex: people vote for local ecology regulation on agriculture but buy the cheapest veggies that are imported from non regulated market shows they either don't realise or don't care
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