Popular vote is a very dangerous thing! It doesn't take a genius to conclude that the majority of the world's population is comprised of stupid religious morons.
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Popular vote is a very dangerous thing! It doesn't take a genius to conclude that the majority of the world's population is comprised of stupid religious morons.
Lots of people in positions of power across the world are also as you described. You left out all the people in both categories who are religious and not morons as well as those who are not religious or stupid who do good for the people around the world. Bad argument imo
first of all, you are going off on a totally different tangent than what this entire drama is all about.
we are not talking about religions. you are wanting to pivot the discussion to focus on religions but this is not about how many people in the world are christian or any other type of religion.
id also like to point out that even within religions people do not all believe the same way. to say that people are stupid and incapable of making sound judgements for themselves because they are religious is flat out cognitive dissonance because, again, you are failing to account for the fact that many of the US's Lawmakers are themselves religious. The same goes for around the world. People in general are religious so, again, your argument fails.
Which, by the way, the lawmakers in America, are actively and aggressively working to pass laws directly related to their particular flavor of religion. the founding fathers wanted church and state to be separate for that very reason, yet here we are in 2017 with lawmakers passing laws dictating what women can and cannot do with their bodies, as just one example.
so, please save the bs for someone else who more gullible. youll probably have some kind of retort but im not going to respond anymore because youre projecting your views about religion onto a discussion that is actually focused on economic politics within the steemit platform.
Thanks for your last reply. Believe it or not, I agree with you on some points in your last statement. because now we can move on to discussing the solution. My main point is that an electoral college type system is itself subject to corruption. If a steemit system mimicking the EC were setup, as you described with them receiving and controlling the SP from steemit account, what's preventing them from abusing it or favoring who the want. There's a reason the USA doesn't really strictly on EC but also uses popular vote. The EC is supposed to follow the will of the popular vote but are not required to. Hencen, two hugely unpopular presidents got in office against the will of the people.
Haejin has so many followers because he has manipulated the system, marketed steemit as get rich by convincing his followers to upvote him, and as I understand it, having multiple of his own accounts upvoting him. In America that'd be some kind of fraud, but I don't specifically which one. Self dealing maybe. Bribery. I dunno. Not a legal expert.
I think you have a thought out idea which has merit, but doesn't account for all the factors at play. It's good to have someone, you, give a suggestion to address the abuse. It needs worked out and that isn't going to happen until more people present proposals for a solution to come to some agreement.
however, I'm not sure how setting up an EC type of thing would still keep steemit's decentalized but honestly I'm so new I don't fully understand all this crypto stuff.