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| Source |  Errata Security |
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| Identifiant | 7840 |
| Date de publication | 2016-06-08 00:13:36 (vue: 2016-06-08 00:13:36) |
| Titre | No, Musky, Feudalism is best for Mars |
| Texte | Recently, the press fawned all over Elon Musk's comments at a conference. Among them was Musk's claim that "direct democracy" would be the best system, where citizen's vote directly for laws, rather than voting for (corrupt) representatives/congressmen. This is nonsense. The best political system would be feudalism.There is no such thing as "direct democracy". Our representatives in congress are only the first layer on top of a bureaucracy. Most rules that restrict us are not "laws" voted by congress but "regulations" decided by some bureaucrat.Consider the BP Gulf Oil spill, as an example. It happened because oil companies got cozy with their regulators, the minerals Management Service (MMS), part of the Department of the Interior. The bureaucrats had a dual mandate: to protect the environment, and to promote economic activity. Oil companies lobbied them to risk the environment in favor of profits.Consider Obamcare's controversial mandate that health insurers must pay for abortions. This was not part of the law pass by congress, but a decision by the bureaucrats in charge of all the little details in carrying out the law.Consider the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulation of the Internet. It bases its power to regulate the Internet on laws that essentially predate the Internet as we know it.No matter how ideal this "direct Democracy" of Musk's, you are still going to leave most decision making in the hands of a bureaucracy. This is especially true on space flight to Mars. If something's wrong with the air system, you want a technician making quick decisions to fix it. Otherwise, people would suffocate long before they had a chance to vote on the issue. Technicians must be trusted with important decisions, like jettisoning that one pod killing 10 people in order to save the remaining 100.No matter the political system, you are going to have the bureaucracy making tactical, day-to-day decisions. You are also going to have an upper tier, making long term strategic decisions. It's how all political systems work, from monarchies to "direct democracy". They largely just change the names of the bureaucrats, rather than being substantively different.The corruption in Democracies doesn't necessarily come from those in power, but from the voters themselves. Voters are idiots and vote like idiots. That's why you have candidates like those of the U.S's current election season -- populist demagogues preying on people's ignorance proposing solutions that educated people believe to be unworkable. The majority of voters have never taken an economics class, do not understand foreign policy, or have any other qualification to make the decisions they make.Instead of education, voters overwhelming decide what's best for themselves, not dispassionately what's best for society as a whole. College students vote for free college. Old people vote for social security and health care. Mothers vote for child leave and child care. Racists vote to keep unwanted types out of their community. And so on. That's corruption at it's core.As de Tocqueville is famous for noting, democracy only lasts up to the point that 51% of the population realizes they can vote to just take everything away from the other 49%. You call it corruption, but our current system allows a member of the 49% to lobby congress so that they don't get screwed by the 51%. Indeed, that's what most lobbyists do -- they aren't asking for special favors from the government so much as trying to alleviate special punishments. It's a sort of corruption defending themselves from the voter's corruption.As the famous quote goes, "Democracy is the worst form of government -- except for all the others". It's a horrible system, it's just we h |
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