Generally I agree with this idea, though I have struggled with the details more than a little. Which types of services, I cannot come to a solid conclusion and often think military types are the best in that discipline and strength are vital to any nation.
Certain baselines like male, certain services, abilities like math, science, perhaps physical fitness, genetic offspring might be stuff in the right direction.
Chunks of these two videos explain things like anarchy, democracy, republic, socialism and so on in economic and political spectrum. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
There's a few countries with systems like that. In practice it ends up being makework and a waste of time. You can't institutionalise service like that.
[–] White-Supremacist 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Generally I agree with this idea, though I have struggled with the details more than a little. Which types of services, I cannot come to a solid conclusion and often think military types are the best in that discipline and strength are vital to any nation.
Certain baselines like male, certain services, abilities like math, science, perhaps physical fitness, genetic offspring might be stuff in the right direction.
[–] Broc_Lia 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Or just ditch democracy entirely. Even clever people are generally shit at making decisions about other people's money.
[–] White-Supremacist 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
I am curious about what you imagine being the alternative.
https://youtu.be/-MzxC8Mqupw?t=503 Political spectrum.
https://youtu.be/-MzxC8Mqupw?t=1141 Economic spectrum.
Chunks of these two videos explain things like anarchy, democracy, republic, socialism and so on in economic and political spectrum. I'd love to hear your thoughts.