link to video about this song in particular is attached to the OP (repeated here)

Administrative costs are high in health care and education (which are not really the US federal government), but I can’t find data on this for the labor costs to administrative professionals in government. Source?

Labor costs are high for the federal government, but I thought a lot of that was pensions + regular raises. I don’t think these things should be attributed to capitalism run amok.

Idk if we want to be in a state that can only write ~1000 characters to regulate AI, and that will take at least a 2 month lag?

My gut reaction is exhaustion. I would like this if folks had the time, resources, and politicians weren’t so tied up in party politics.

If you have a functional legislative arm of government, then it produces too many bits of text for the average person to keep up with it, and it’s not terribly efficient for them to try. I don’t need to know the particulars of industrial zoning policy, but I do want it to be sensical.

And if the politicians decide to bundle things together, lots of wedging becomes available. This seems less common for single-issue policy juries (one could even constrain their range on creation).

But in RCV and good support: sure. I think it could be made to work.

I like this! I do prefer physical ballots (we’ve already had a few scares with new tech being hard for folks of certain generations), but that can totally be implemented.

I’m too many levels in and I can’t tell which combination you’re talking about XD

Administration in non-profits and schools mostly.

This is very similar to how we do it with juries; a body of the people to stamp/implement the laws written by congress and rules for reading them from judges. I think it’s an improvement.

But I do want to vouch for how teachable people can be. And I think it really changes how we fund/run/manage education when ‘functioning in the senate’ is a mandatory skill.

I worry that a lot of it comes from scale. It’s expensive/tricky to scale up human flexability; I think I’ve seen well meaning people design systems they intended to be human, and got much worse results than the lawyers and bankers. There’s some skill here.

Just logging that this doesn’t match any data I’ve seen, unless you take Nazi to be an obscenely broad tent. Sources + definitions required.

I remain a huge fan of sortition. You randomly pick a bunch of people who are willing (and/or able) to do the job, let guardrails veto some of them, train them and let them cook. An unordered list of things to love:

• It’s substantially faster than elections,
• scales to any size polity,
• is definitionally fair,
• no foreign influence in elections,
• parties really do not matter,
• there’s no good way to bribe future would-be politicians because that’s everybody,
• you can enact change by persuading folks one at a time, and every supporter improves your outcomes,
• decision makers can become experts in one thing instead of being vaguely ignorant of everything,
• incentivizes everyone governed to make others healthy, happy, well adjusted, and connected with reality,
• how Athens did it,
• by multiverse theory, there is some branch where all your friends got to make any given decision.

We already do this for the life-or-death task of juries. We have the technology.

(Second choice is RCV w\ MMP; fairvote does good work.)