Comment by prox
5 days ago
And as Douglas Adams stated in the problem with ruling axiom, is that under no circumstance should you allow someone who gets themselves in a position to rule, rule.
5 days ago
And as Douglas Adams stated in the problem with ruling axiom, is that under no circumstance should you allow someone who gets themselves in a position to rule, rule.
> under no circumstance should you allow someone who gets themselves in a position to rule, rule.
Unfortunately the opposite is also true, as anyone who's served on a non-profit board with noncommital members knows.
At least some greek states used to assign leadership in a lottery system designed in such a way partially to avoid the issues with this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleroterion
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I think a reasonable compromise would be to elect a top 2-3 and then choose randomly between them.
The old election system for one of the Italian city-states was fascinating along these lines - multiple rounds (like, a dozen) alternating between sortition/lot and voting. The benefit, I guess, being that the lottery rounds make strategic voting unworkable, and the voting rounds allow better candidates to be preferred over worse ones.
Lol this is a terrible system because most people do not under any circumstance want to be bothered with wasting their time on this shit.
They get in that position because nobody else wants to do it.