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It's Shopify's Tobi Lutke.

A reminder that he's behind Build Canada and Build Toronto, and that Build Toronto's Eric Lombardi is running for the Ontario Librral Party leadership as we speak.

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[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca -4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

No one should vote. Representative democracy by popular vote isn't an effective way to administrate a nation.

Bring back qualified sortition.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

For those downvoting, Sortion isn't such a bad idea. Its basically a lottery to put a group of people in charge. I honestly think 100 random Canadians probably would do a better job than career politicians only out for themselves and the corporations funding them.

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

And importantly, a group of people who have already been identified as qualified for the specific office in question through experience or education.

We need to stop letting bankers and business owners run our country, then act surprised when they run it with profit and economic growth as their primary focus...

We also have the technological infrastructure for more reliable direct democracy. I would love to see everyone over the age a majority issued a smart device (phone, tablet, whatever) where the administration could push plainly worded surveys daily or weekly to solicit public feedback on relevant issues to help direct prioritization.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I like the idea of a Technocracy with highly paid 4 year terms selected by lottery. It should not be hard to be an expert just 10 years works experience or any post-secondary would work. About 25% of the population is what I would call malicious voters. They don't want progress, they just want bad things to happen to people they don't like. The 75% of normal people would cancel their evil out. The end result is you be ruled by the majority and they would have a guaranteed level of knowledge. You need to be highly paid because your term could trash your career if it hit at the wrong time.

[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

I'm also a fan of Technocracy, but I've almost never seen that well received.