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[-] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago
[-] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technically Condorcet method voting is the fairest and least vulnerable to manipulation, but as long as the system works better then FPTP (such as with bonda count) I would be fine with it.

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

No employee, owner, shareholder, investor, contractor, etc. can make more than 50 times the amount of the lowest paid employee, contractor, supplier employee, supplier's supplier employee, etc. (Including all of the foreign slaves).

Tim Cook wants to earn 50M per year? Then all of those Foxconn guys that they need nets to stop from suiciding need to make at least 1M. All of the guys making chips have to make 1M. All of the guys mining coal to produce the electricity have to make 1M.

Income inequality problems would be abated. "Dey took our yobs." would be less of a problem because you would save money by using local labor due to lower shipping costs. Poverty would eventually be eliminated.

Probably communism with extra steps, but maybe it would be less prone to party dictators.

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[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It has no chance of becoming a reality without the help of moderates and liberals who have made it very clear they would rather lose to MAGA than compromise with leftists and progressives.

People have yet to acknowledge the first implications of this. If we believe the numbers of progressives and leftists are growing there will come a time when we begin winning primaries but will lose general elections consistently because moderates and liberals suddenly won't "vote blue no matter who". Which means fascism isn't just a possibility, it's guaranteed.

If moderates and liberals don't make different choices there's nothing we can do.

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[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly at this point the only thing you are keeping is the English language.

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[-] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Ranked choice is quite terrible actually, barely better than Plurality (also known as FPTP). The center for election science has a whole article on it here. https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/

3-2-1 voting and STAR are the best choices, but the CES actually advocates for approval due to logistics and people getting confused by 321 and star.

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[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Decommodify housing as well

[-] CaptainProton@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MANDATORY voting... Let's be real, we have people who are unable to read the candidates' personal statements, you really want them voting?

That'll be used to get President Camacho legislating Mandatory plant watering using Gatorade.

[-] JayObey711@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That is reeeeaally anti-democratic.

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[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 6 points 1 year ago

No. You keep treating the symptoms.

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[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Legalize all drugs. Keep prices low(street value) with quality monitoring paid for by tax of product. Any further tax revenue from product to be used for addiction treatment.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ranked choice voting is clearly a better choice than plurality voting, but if you're not familiar with STAR voting, please check it out:

https://www.starvoting.org/star_rcv_pros_cons

https://youtu.be/oFqV2OtJOOg?si=pQ1R3wpPmzOcaO17.

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[-] elrik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You have about 25 items too many on this list.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago

Mandatory voting I dunno.

The rest are definitely good, I'm thinking just having a whole ass revolution might be easier than getting all this done, and as a bonus would come with additional benefits.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Convert corporations into Worker Consumer Cooperatives to prevent investor wealth accumulation and regulatory capture and align business towards worker and consumer interests rather than short-term profit seeking.

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Can you please create a community for this? I'd love to be able to discuss each point separately, and suggest others.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

dunno how you mandate people vote. the rest looks like an ambitious but overall laudable start.

[-] Winter8593@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Australia already does it

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

Legalizing Prostitution just creates more Human Trafficking, as a result of allowing human traffickers to operate in the open under the guise of legality. We have decades of evidence that lead to this conclusion. We don't need to keep trying it.

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[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It all starts with the top - proportional representation.

It still amazes me that states have those proposition votea/referenda started by petitions and yet there isn't a movement to get proportional representation on the ballot? Or if there is it seems pretty quiet from outside the US.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

i think your biggest problem is how you are getting any of this done with opposite financial incentives in the way without a literal revolution.

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