Nozomi's work is always mind bending and this one did not disappoint. We also had an incredible conversation on this week's podcast, find the link in the blog post
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A little thought experiment in politics:
I understand that simple majority democracy is not a proven solution, but for simplicity's sake think about this:
The voting for the 2020 American presidential election breaks down as follows -
Candidate 1: 81 million
Candidate 2: 74 million
All other candidates: 2.8 million
The total estimated number of eligible voters in was approximately 239 million, so the percentage of the population who actually voted was 33.9%, 30.9%, and 1.2% respectively.
That means the popular majority of 34% actually chose not to vote for any of the candidates on the ballot.
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What if a "non-vote" by these people were taken to mean a vote for no one? Meaning in this case, no one would fill the role, not even the incumbent.
I only assume that more than 34% of the American population would be okay with this outcome, as most the people that I know who voted then we doing so in order to vote "against" the candidate they did not like.
Could we bring back the consent of the governed?
Fascinating. I just learned this:
When moving files around on Windows, the OS takes and physically changes their location on the hard drive.
When moving files in Linux, they don't move, but instead the metadata as to their location is changed. The file structure moves around the file.
