RE: The Neo Luddites
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My feeling is that what we really need is direct democracy. No more leaders.
As AI and robots take care of our day to day abundance let each citizen be paid through UBI to participate in that direct democracy. We have the block chain tech to make it transparently happen. Perhaps as crypto makes us more self sovereign about our finances it will naturally move to politics. We could take it a step at a time. With AI and robots making the sandwiches and filling the pot holes the average citizen will have more time to focus on governance.
Perhaps something like school boards first. Something that will not disrupt society immediately yet has a large long term effect. Then slowly move it to all aspects of governing. Decisions made locally where the decisions shall have the most effect.
Right now most elected officials simply set policy and the bureaucracy does the work. That bureaucracy normally continues on as different governments come and go. My guess is that in short order we will wonder why we ever required leaders in the first place.
Ugh, bureaucracy is the worst. And we are charged for it too.
Yes. Though it would worry me that things would get rather tribal.
A case can be made for tribalism in some cases, in my opinion.
For example my province has a long tradition of fishing. Decisions in the central government favored large commercial fisheries which tended to rape the offshore banks and devastated the local fisheries and depleted such stocks as the cod fish. If the decisions about the fisheries were made in the areas were those decisions would have their greatest effect then perhaps the choices may have been different; resulting in th defence of the inshore fisheries.
Sorry, yes. I think if I'd thought about it for a second longer I would have countered my own concerns with how freaking annoying bureaucracy is making decisions for swathes of the population it knows nothing about. Most of my dreams are a return to pre globalism!