I don’t care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.
If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.
If they choose the worst option it’s a signal they want to keep moving in that direction!
Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.
And thanks to gerrymandering that minority gets it’s way half the time
I don’t care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.
If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.
It’s not that tiny, it’s at least 27%.
Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor