Bruce Schneier’s Plan to Reinvent Democracy
Might as well write out my democracy fantasy:<p>- Everyone gets to vote if they&#x27;re over the voting age (eg 18).<p>- Your vote counts in proportion to your expected remaining years left in society. So if you&#x27;re 95, you get 1 vote. If you&#x27;re 20 you get around 60 more, depending on the tables. If you&#x27;re an immigrant who arrived as an adult, eg a corporate expat, you get maybe 5 votes. There will be a table of stats about all sorts of things like this. Skin in the game.<p>- If you have kids, you get their votes, split with the other parent. So a 10 year old would give each parent roughly 35 extra votes.<p>- When you vote, it&#x27;s a quiz. The questions will be known questions out of a bank of maybe 10k questions, and the quiz is 100 random questions. If you get 75 correct, your candidate gets 75 x your weight. We want voters who cared to learn the facts to have more say.<p>- Parliament is chosen by proportional representation. Have a few areas represented in proportion, then add overall balancing seats. There&#x27;s several ways to do this.<p>- Term limits. Maybe just a single term of 10 years. Takes time to learn politics, like anything else. But also we want people to make decisions that aren&#x27;t just about getting re-elected. If you know you&#x27;re leaving eventually you can just focus on getting the things done that are important.<p>- Large salary and large pension for the MPs. Independent commission that looks at all your finances in private, during and after tenure. Flags things that it finds flagworthy.<p>- Not sure about geographic seats. Maybe just assign each voter to a virtual MP, at random. Local geographies should have local government to deal with local matters. This also does away with gerrymandering. But if we&#x27;re going to have geographic seats, get a computer to assign random blobs.