Canaconda@lemmy.ca to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoEveryone with wealth and power has been eyeing their incremental rollout with intense interest while trying to play it cool.lemmy.caimagemessage-square216linkfedilinkarrow-up1900arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1895arrow-down1imageEveryone with wealth and power has been eyeing their incremental rollout with intense interest while trying to play it cool.lemmy.caCanaconda@lemmy.ca to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square216linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThirdConsul@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 days agoThe word and system you’re looking for is the ancient Greek democracy, especially from Athens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition Ancient Greeks believed that government and positions of power must be randomly selected by a machine from a pool of candidates, and that elections are NOT democratic. That elections are always going to be corrupted by the oligarchy.
minus-squaretristynalxander@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoYep, the United States is an electoral oligarchy, not a democratic republic.
The word and system you’re looking for is the ancient Greek democracy, especially from Athens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Ancient Greeks believed that government and positions of power must be randomly selected by a machine from a pool of candidates, and that elections are NOT democratic. That elections are always going to be corrupted by the oligarchy.
Yep, the United States is an electoral oligarchy, not a democratic republic.