Comment by r3trohack3r
2 years ago
Bad systems beat good people.
Everything you listed is valid (through one lens), but they are symptoms. Distract yourself with symptoms and you'll never solve the problem.
Application Service Providers, as they exist today, are bad systems.
They provide tremendous value, that's why they exist. But they also carry tremendous cost. So far, nobody has solved the cost without compromising the value.
If you want to fix the web, moving us closer to a free and open web, stay hyper focused on solving the cost without compromising the value.
First past the post voting is a bad system.
In the U.S. you don't solve politics by voting for candidates, that's treating symptoms.
If you are a staunch republican, vote republican. If you are a staunch democrat, vote democrat.
Everyone else should be hyper focused on one thing: ballot reform.
If you want to solve the problem, focus on the game and solve it. A society full of good, but currently defeated, people will do the rest.
Do we have evidence that ballot reform actually can improve political outcomes?
Not just evidence, we also have well established models for evaluating voting systems.
First-past-the-post is one of the objectively worst, seemingly sensible, voting systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Vot...