>Why do people need representatives in the age when everyone has a voice?
Because people are capricious, easily manipulated by emotion and generally refuse to acknowledge their ignorance on matters in which they insist on having opinions about.
Using the Twitter/Reddit voting model to run the world is absurd.
Right. So you'd rather have them vote for a single candidate who sells them hopes and dreams that they'll make the right decisions to solve all their problems 4 years at a time, instead of voting for solutions to specific issues they're interested in where subject matter experts can actually improve things?
Corruption and greed are inescapable. At least by not giving a single person and party absolute power over everything, the damage can be contained to specific areas of government.
> Using the Twitter/Reddit voting model to run the world is absurd.
What's absurd is the current absolutist model that is easily corrupted via social media (Cambridge Analytica, etc.).
> Because people are capricious, easily manipulated by emotion and generally refuse to acknowledge their ignorance on matters in which they insist on having opinions about.
So are a huge number of politicians.
It's also a slippery slope- where is the line drawn? We allow everyone to elect the government, but you don't trust them to vote on a referendum?
Because people are capricious, easily manipulated by emotion and generally refuse to acknowledge their ignorance on matters in which they insist on having opinions about.
Using the Twitter/Reddit voting model to run the world is absurd.