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New-Shop-7539 OP t1_jaa7717 wrote

Reply to comment by NerdforceHeroes in The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

All undecided. That's why we need to THINK!!!

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NerdforceHeroes t1_jaa87oe wrote

People have. This has all been tried before.

Vanguard socialism was the idea that a group of enlightened revolutionaries needed to lead the people towards the coming socialist utopia. The Vanguard became concerned only with maintaining its own power and the totalitarian Soviet Union was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism

I believe humans are inherently good but we are also inherently corruptible. Thats why the most successful modern societies contain transparent institutions and frequent elections, so that the people can hold their leaders to account and ensure they work to make the nation as a whole richer, rather than just their own chequebooks.

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acutelychronicpanic t1_jaa9vz7 wrote

People have been having this conversation for a long time. Good government is hard. Read history, read political science and economics, and definitely read up on ethics.

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New-Shop-7539 OP t1_jaaar3h wrote

I want to help solve the world's problems. I do need to know about the stupidity of our ancestors

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acutelychronicpanic t1_jaan8nl wrote

I hope you succeed in making the world a better place. Just don't focus so much on efficiency and perfect solutions. They can be short-sighted.

It seems to me like you have an idea for what the ideal world might look like. But beware that it would be an unstable solution. The problem with central control is that it is fragile. Voting systems are inefficient, but they are more robust and harder to corrupt. Still corruptible, obviously, but less so.

You want to seek a system that can withstand the pressures and corruption of the real world.

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