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When people will be able to vote on individual issues, and will be able to introduce new law projects, the whole dynamics of voting will change. Because people will be able to trade votes.

Buying a phone for someone so that your law gets one more vote will be very natural, so all the poor people will get new phones very soon. And that will not be a bad thing, because politician will not be able to buy votes then pass a law to take the same money back from people. In effect this will morph into a sort of UBI, where some people pay others to keep society running with laws that they think are beneficial for everyone. And people who think they know better will be able to gather in separate cities and try out the laws they think will be better.



wat. The rich will pay UBI in exchange for getting to control the votes? I'm hoping this was sarcasm.


But the rich and middle class already do that in the form of paying taxes and government transferring part of that taxes to the poor. The only difference will be that poor will know exactly who is helping them, instead of thanking government and politicians, and half of the transferred money will not get wasted on politicians and bureaucracy.




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