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> and get rid of the representatives

>and end lobbying with all the corruption it has.

You never get rid of these people, you just move who they are.

Now Mr Beast and whoever is slipping him cash is your political representative because of the power of their parasocial relationships.

>"because a lot of people are ignorant!" then you put effort into educating them.

This won't work, not because people are ignorant, but because of entropy.

As a human you can only learn so much so fast and you don't have time to learn everything that a government knows or does. You're going to remain ignorant on most complicated things because that's the default state of the universe. People with money/power still have more time and effort available to push the vote their way, and they will target the education first (much like right now).

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You can do diplomas for different parts of government and assign ranks to voters based on their familiarity with the topic. Then you can share the voting results by how informed people are. If I don't know much about the topic buy those who do say we should go to war with the martians it might change my opinion.

You can also use it as a trigger to create media attempting to objectively inform the oblivious if they drift to far away. These should be large expensive efforts with not-propaganda at the top of the agenda. Show the giant weapon the martians are building in earth orbit.

You can also keep the representatives as the default vote. That way, if their financial backers or those blackmailing them try to sneak in their usual bullshit you can log in and change the vote.

If the representatives picks their own representative anyone can be your representative. You can at any time change your vote to your mum and ignore politics

I also envision each law requiring a minimum number of yes votes to be activated and a minimum number of no to deactivate.

If there are few enough yes votes and enough no's the law is deleted. You can change your vote at any time.

Have some algorithm to implement the changes over time so that Mr beast has to make many months of effort.

Government employees are to work on new law proposals to replace the least popular ones. If they fail to read the room hard enough first their salary is reduced and eventually they get fired algorithmically. If they get it right often enough we increase their salary endlessly but they still get fired if they get it wrong repeatedly. If they don't know anymore new courses and new diplomas are created.

I also want to give the voter a monthly payment for each diploma they got. Asking people to do important work for free makes no sense. How much is up to the voters.




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