Posted: May 14, 2018 7:51 am
Xerographica wrote:Correct. Therefore... what? We just continue to use voting despite the fact that there's no evidence that it's more effective than spending?
For me it's simple. I'm very much disturbed, and bothered, by the lack of evidence.
I don't quite understand either why you think that disenfranchisement of those without money having been tried before (feudalism and the centuries that followed all featured land-owner and wealth restrictions) doesn't provide us with some form of evidence base, nor why you would be very much disturbed by the continued use of the most effective system thus far discovered.
We need some form of election if we are to have a government, and even if we haven't yet discovered the best possible, that's no kind of motivation not to use the best we have.
So what else are we to do? Not have governments while we investigate your personal suspicions? Is that a reasonable expectation given there seem to be literally billions who don't share that suspicion?