Weighted Voting: Recent Episodes
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Summary of the overarching premise and consideration of potential long-term implications.
A look at the proposed test structure, followed by the approximately 100 most important political issues.
A deep dive into personal income taxes. The goal is to show that we can significantly increase our understanding of specific issues with a modest time investment.
Prior episodes focused primarily on how the benefits of weighted voting more than offset the disadvantages. This episode changes direction by instead focusing on how to gain buy-in by both politicians and the general population.
Review of the numerous societal, political, and economic changes we would expect as a result of weighted voting becoming a reality.
address questions and comments about both the overall weighted voting process and episode formatting received through September 15, 2021.
Deep dive into whether the overall premise would likely result in discrimination toward disadvantaged socioeconomic and/or ethnic groups.
The prior episode made a case for the overall premise of weighted voting and what attributes should be included. This one considers alternative metrics and provides rationale as to why they should not be included in the initial rollout.
An in-depth look at which attributes would increase an individual's vote share, followed by a strawman showing how the process could work effectively.
How our current voting system incentivizes politicians to pursue their self interests at the expense of the general population.
Overview of the weighted voting concept and why the benefits dramatically outweigh the limitations.