Ask HN: Why is there no solution for direct democracy? Hi there, i always asked my self, where there is no app, that solves democracy.
Why are we still voting every 4 years. Going back to first principles, we should ask ourselves : Why do politicians exist? They existed(!) in ancient greece, because people didn't have time to inform themselves, right ? - We solved this with newspapers, 100 years ago. Ok, but we can't sit all day in parliament, right? We work remotely these days. Everything can be asynchronous. We can records everything and watch on demand. So that's also a non-argument.
But, it would be too much paperwork to get the votes from millions of people. It wasn't scalable. - We solved that with smartphones, 5 years ago. I would like to have votes like the one in switzerland, but with smartphones. Can you give me reasonable arguments, why this is not already done? |