Democracy: Possible paths
Notes:
one possible solution is being tested in the field of american politics to streamline the grotesquely inefficient system elections--elections being, of course, at the core of a consumer democracy.
let us first look at elections as they currently unroll, with all their inefficiencies.
[click] at the top, we have a number of corporations, let's call them corporations A.
[click] from the corporation, involving the work of about twelve employees PER corporation, goes a great deal of money to
[click] a campaign--let's call it campaign B.
[click] From the campaign--involving...--goes a great deal of money to a
[click] p.r. agency--let's call it...
[click] to t.v. stations....
[click] finally, the TV stations relay the information to the consumer--with NO transfer of money, of course (except in the case of pay-per-view, etc.)
and of course the irony of this, in order to generate all the money that it takes to fuel this chain, you have all the workers of the corporations who are ALSO the citizens and the voters at the END of the chain.
now on the other hand, another model: in this case you have the [click] corporations paying, with about the same number of people involved, ONE entity: [click] Voteauction.com, Voteauction.com, in turn, employs ONLY four people to transmit NOT merely inf
[here, if necessary voteauction.com some more]
vote-auction.com permits voters to auction their votes, voluntarily, to...