Justin Goro
1 min readJan 7, 2020

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No, something a little more incentive driven. Direct democracy works nicely in some settings but doesn’t require that citizens have skin in the game. They can often devolve into populist virtue signalling. Stated values usually don’t line up with revealed preference. I think Switzerland benefits from certain cultural peculiarities that can’t be assumed in all countries and at all population scales.

But even if we would prefer bringing in direct democracy, it requires going through the traditional lawmaking process which is fraught with capture by concentrated interests.

Instead citizens crowdsourcing laws would be a permissionless process. For instance, bounties that lawmakers can “claim” by acting with integrity, similar to the Mo Ibrahim fund but powered by decentralized finance and governance. Kickstarter for good governance and anti corruption

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Justin Goro
Justin Goro

Written by Justin Goro

Creator of WeiDai and 92 times emperor of Tsuranuanni

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