Comment by hluska

Comment by hluska a day ago

2 replies

Democracy is fundamentally about putting in free labour. That’s just how it works, from the lowliest municipal elections up to federal. It’s a lot of unpaid labour.

That system works and has worked for a long time.

refactor_master a day ago

I think that’s an oversimplification. You can’t take the “free labor of performing democracy” and put it to equally good use doing anything else I can think of.

I guess you could work in soup kitchens, but that’s horribly inefficient welfare compared to just electing competent leadership, if the ultimate aim is to benefit The People.

  • j45 a day ago

    Agreed on oversimplification

    It’s more putting the burden on the people

    By free labor I meant the bureaucrats who are paid in the otherwise to make the laws