[ExI] Space governance

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 2:25 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> How about this.  People are grouped into neighborhoods of 60.  Each
> draws lots to choose one representative
>

As low-skilled or malicious as elected representatives can be, randomly
selecting people will get even more incompetence on average.  Such a
government could not function - in the bad sense of "not function".
Commons would not be protected.  Law would be absent in practice, leading
to de facto rule by force instead of rule by representation and law.
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