This is a weakness of all forms of representative democracy, partisan and non partisan alike. I can picture liquid democracy solving this, where you delegate votes on stuff that you dont care about to your preferred MP, but retain your direct vote for bills you do care about. Another, albeit not yet viable, solution discussed on https://plurality.net/ is an AI parliament that summarizes the opinions of the entire voterbase. This type of problem is called Broad Listening (summarizing and grouping a superhuman amount of opinions), and LLMs have the potential to be very good at this. The best solution so far was the system of local MPs but truly effectove broad listening is, obviously, a task that is beyond their abilities/will.

Theyre still bundles just theres more to pick from

I feel like perhaps a slightly easier first step would be to push for a cap that is higher than anybody’s wealth (say £100B) — so that the debate is initially only about the principle — and only then demand it be lowered. 1) salami slicing works, and 2) even just the fact of there being one (albeit unreachable) would imo do a lot psychologically.

And while we’re at it, another pet policy of mine is a tax that starts at 0 and approaches 100% as your income approaches infinity. Then you’d just play with the steepness of the curve. You’d still have the problem of pre-existing hoardrd wealth though.

Also the astronomical additions to the govt budget from all this would prob lead to equally astronomical embezzlement, rendering the whole limit ineffective. So another, prob more decentralized, mechanism of redistribution would need to be devised first.

Imho a hard cap on personal wealth would be sufficient.

There should be set ratios between worker pay, CEO pay and profits.

Not a bad idea. Except generalize it to max ratio between highest pay and lowest pay within a company.

I think that waiting without having decided what you are waiting for is another delightful thing that deserves discussion.

I meant it more in the context of mental health

At least for our civiliſation, there would always be the echoes of ſignals like the Aracebo Meſſage that would be around for future civiliſations to catch regardleſs of what happened here on Earth.

I mean it’s not like ships pull up to a star, unless they are spaceships that is.

That sounds like quite a sensible system. Also in NL the 2/3 will almost always require a broad coalition of parties because of your proportional system.

Hungary’s parliament is currently above the constitution because the ruling party has a 2/3 majority. They might as well pass all laws as constitutional laws. The situation is quite similar to the UK where any party with a prime minister can change anything at all.

My dreams usually have quite a long story line, except that I tend forget the previous plot points while it’s still happening. Let alone when I wake up.

He probably has Ukraine’s best psychologists and a team of specialists helping him

Employers can fire easily, which make it easier for companies to hire for expansion, but also fire if the expansion fails.

This is good. It makes a lot of sense that the financial welfare of people should be offloaded off the backs of employers (who need to be dynamic), and onto the state.

What concerns me especially is how much this problem could be aggrivated if society ever embraces VR/AR which would allow everybody to literally live in their own reality

https://sopuli.xyz/comment/15182600

How many hours do you spend on here bro??