Comments | fare: Governance by Democracy

fare

Governance by Democracy

Nov 04, 2014 14:12

This essay was written by my friend Perry Metzger.

Lets say your company has a business decision to make. Say there is a committee (already a bad idea but lets ignore that for now) assigned to the problem. Will you make the decision better or worse by adding a large number of people to the committee who aren't very interested in the topic, know ( Read more... )

democracy, perry, elections, en

Comments 2

Well... ext_2869177 November 10 2014, 14:32:48 UTC

"If you presume that the answer is "the result would be worse", and yet you would prefer that your doctor be more informed and intelligent rather than less informed and less intelligent ( ... )

Re: Well... fare November 11 2014, 02:07:08 UTC

Indeed, a politically appointed, self-renewing monopoly committee of "experts" is not as good as a free market in experts selected by those people who care. But "democracy" is precisely about uncaring ignorants voting for the politico who will appoint a monopoly committee of "experts".