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This just came up in another comment on HN: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...


I watched the whole thing waiting for his proposed solution. There are plenty of people that at the end of that talk would be willing to give of themselves (time and money) to fix the problem. So what does he give us?

? I dunno, love or something

This is so disappointing. If we really cared, then wouldn't it be worth starting with a strategy, a plan with steps that could result in a solution? Drumming up enthusiasm to do "something" without a call to action is just raising awareness nonsense.

Of course, if we did have a plan to stop corruption, very powerful people would likely oppose it. The amount of money held by those that would be hurt by fixing campaign finance is staggering and they are probably not willing to to restrain themselves ethically from doing whatever it takes to prevent reform.

So there's that too.


He has a plan: https://mayday.us/


Wow - I've respected him for a while, but this is just amazingly well put. Game changing for me.




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