Why don't we, the people, have some form of direct democracy using blockchain yet?
Would you use it? Would you vote for or against world war 3? Would you vote to remove Biden, Trudeau, Erdogan, Netanyahu or Merkel from power? Would you have voted for or against lockdowns?
What's going in Ukraine is an international scandal and is becoming a provocation for ww3. Who ever voted for that war? None of us. Aren't Americans sick of having their tax dollars spent on foreign wars?
They give us 1 vote every X years - depending on where you are based - between 2-3 parties which are both controlled by the same forces. Democracy is an illusion and we need to create a new system with more involvement from common citizens.
Dan Blitzerian wrote an excellent tweet recently "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
Can't we create anything better than derivs of derivs of derivs of memecoins?
I've been thinking about some form of direct democracy using blockchain for years but it seems nobody has tried to design such a platform
Shall we take the power back or continue to be ruled by evil men and dragged into ww3?
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What about the DAO concept, this is happening in splinterlands. It is not one vote per person but stake weighted, it seems to be working well.
The people who are in power now don´t want that the current, flawed and easily manipulable system ever changes. And they have the better weapons!
The fact that this is possible and they are not doing it just confirms what you say, they don't want to be held liable
Merkel?
Former chancellor of Germany
Yes former, not in power.
That was years ago.
yeh and arguably the chancellor most Germans would've voted out had they had a real chance
It's quite sad how little say we have in big decisions. A direct democracy with blockchain sounds like a promising idea friend. Let's take the power back and shape our future.
Plato's right. Evil people suck! We need common sense laws to preserve the common good! Blockchain is an interesting way to go about democratizing goods. I think blockchain could be especially useful if we can get basic UBI for the global population.
Unfortunately, direct democracy isn't scalable, as ancient Athenians discovered. Everyone sane shouldn't want a WW. Regular people even less. Maybe we should mention that besides all the destruction and suffering WW2 brought, it also brought the standardization of passports and national ID cards. One freedom less that we never got back post conflict...