[ExI] Immaculate Election

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Immaculate Election

On 2021-1-12 13:06, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:
> >... So no change is likely...  BillK

>...A pet theory of mine: because politicians like to feel important (and/or
like to keep political donors motivated), they hate any scheme that lowers
the stakes...

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*\\*  Anton Sherwood  *\\*  www.bendwavy.org
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Ja.  In Orwell's classic, political power became a proxy for wealth.  It
wasn't so much that power could be traded for currency, for currency had
become mostly irrelevant.  It really was all about political power.  Result:
government was made up of people who worked for and lusted after
concentrated political power the way capitalists work for money.  

Government workers developed a disdain for the proles' irrelevance, a
contempt for anyone who did not have power.  An example was their dismissive
term proles for all those outside of government.  It didn't matter how
well-educated or how wealthy they were.  Animals and proles are free.  (Part
1, chapter 7.)  In Oceana, it came down to a choice: luxury or freedom.

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