Let me disagree. I see that as opposite. Founding fathers wanted Re-public, which is representative democracy and later it shifted more to direct democracy (take US president election). That is wrong for the sake of effectiveness and good for media manipulation and insanity. Would you like Average Joe to choose chief scientist /operator in nuclear power station? I guess no. So why do you want him to choose the best president of the country with public budget of $4 trillions and numerous services for 320M people? In case of nuclear power station I guess you would rather want some consensus of best people in the industry, experienced, with track record. Look at Bitcoin, Dash... That is how founding fathers modeled, electors from states choose president. BTW this is how it works in China, shortly. And it is called meritocracy.
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I don't think you understand what a Direct Democracy means. A presidential election is not a direct democracy.
Also a meritocracy is arbitrary who decides who is meritable or not?
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Hi, whether you get decisions on some policy, initiative or people as executives, you can vote on it directly (all members get decision, majority wins) or via representatives. Representatives are chosen via direct vote. Those representatives vote other representatives in higher level, etc. I consider it as much better system than when 300M people vote for one guy with enormous power.
I do not oppose advance of direct democracy on specific questions and I believe soon it will bloom thanks to blockchain technology. I just show the other sides of a coin. In Switzerland direct democracy on some topics get along with very decentralized governance scheme. Most of the power lies on cantons/municipalities, not federal government.
As of meritocracy in China, it's the opposite arbitrary. You have to prove the merit. Show proof of work (your track record in lower levels of public service), proof of stake (as a public representative you have given up privacy on your assets and assets of your family etc.).
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I'm really interested in how blockchain tech can revolutionize voting. Do you think in the future people in 'Crypto-democracies' could receive a special voting token by proof of citizenship and how they spend that token decides the outcome?
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