Re: [WDDM] Unequal voting rights? - Re: [WDDM] ReQuest for Defining "a bottom-up origin"

["M. Kolar" <wddm(at)mkolar.org>]

Richard,
   NO!
   Probably we all (hopefully) know that it has big problems, can be
manipulated, can be made a complete farce. But however fast we would like to
get rid of it, it will stay with us at least for some purposes for a long time,
so better make it as good as possible in the meantime.

   One indicator of how hard it would be to replace completely by consent
generating mechanisms is the fact that nobody reacted so far to our reports
about the wisdom councils a related matters. And I was hoping that this subject
could be another important subject for discussion for this group to arrive at
some position.

Mirek

Richard Moore wrote:

> M. Kolar wrote:
>
> >     I do not like at all the idea of giving as a reward more voting
> >     rights to those who make more community contributions.
>
> Is everyone here making the assumption that voting is a democratic
> mechanism, or perhaps the only democratic mechanism?
>
> rkm