This links to another of my beliefs. I'm not anti-market like a lot of leftists following Marx are. I think that it's a good tool for allocation and distribution. It does have flaws, and there are failure modes, but it is a distributed algorithm for the economic calculation problem that mostly works - ThreadSky

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basalisk.bsky.social • 15 days ago

This links to another of my beliefs. I'm not anti-market like a lot of leftists following Marx are. I think that it's a good tool for allocation and distribution. It does have flaws, and there are failure modes, but it is a distributed algorithm for the economic calculation problem that mostly works

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basalisk.bsky.social•15 days ago

Those failure modes are things like when there is monopolisation, or it's dealing with externalities, information asymmetry or goods that should not be traded. This is where regulations are good, and I prefer a Pigouvian to a Coasian solution

basalisk.bsky.social•15 days ago

I'm a sortitionist. I believe that elected bodies are prone to electioneering and corruption, but they are a good way of having the people's voice heard. They should be complemented with a body that is randomly selected from the population, to give thumbs up or down to proposed laws

basalisk.bsky.social•15 days ago

I say this because elected bodies, such as parliaments and congresses, are made up of people that try to get elected, sometimes by doing 'whatever it takes'. There's opportunities for others to corrupt them by helping with electability in undue ways.

basalisk.bsky.social•15 days ago

On the other hand, there's no better way I know of for people in general to express the direction they wish their government to go. I'm not sure a vote every N years for either evil or diet evil parties is a great expression of this. Perhaps voluntary voting on individual matters might work

basalisk.bsky.social•15 days ago

But I think a randomly selected sample of the population that can assent or veto legislation would provide a better representation of the people being sovereign than a single monarch or head of state acting in this role

basalisk.bsky.social•15 days ago

I also believe that government bodies should be distributed rather than centralised wherever possible, and with multiple member positions. For example, something like the Swiss federal council rather than a single powerful president.

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