On 4/7/2018 1:35 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
You seem to be advocating syndicalism, in which people are grouped by occupation rather than location. That opens even more cans of worms than geography. How large is each occupation? For instance is "math teacher" the same occupation as "geography teacher"? Should "math teacher" be further subdivided into which branch of math they teach? What about people with multiple occupations or no occupation? And why occupation anyway, rather than, say, race, gender, age, net wealth, sexual orientation, IQ score, preferred temperature, urban vs. rural, favorite TV show, or countless other ways to categorize people. Maybe even political affiliation.
Personally, I don't think anyone should ever represent a competent adult without the latter's explicit individual consent, revocable at any time for any reason. Just like hiring a lawyer. But I was hoping to discuss math, not politics.
?? But I'm not advocating imposing anything. Just allowing people to form coalitions of interest...which is what political parties are. If you elect two or three candidates from the same populace, then you make more different coalitions able to elect a representative. You don't want to make the districts too big, in which they elect five or more candidates, because that results in the French problem of having many small parties, none of which have enough power to govern, but enough to block governing. Brent