How do I see the voting system?
There are three types of votes I will talk about in this message:
a. Political vote;
b. Voting on Internet systems;
c. Voting on casual events (choosing a team leader, for instance).
How would I improve voting on these systems? I think the paradigm most people have is one of these:
a. “I will vote for me to get well”;
b. “I will vote for my friend/relative/business contact to be well” (which, in turn, will get into the a. situation).
The thing I would do to have a better voting system would be changing the paradigm to:
c. “I will vote for others to get well” (which, after a while, might as well lead me into a., but it’s not a direct connection, like with the b. option).
How would the paradigm I suggest change the reality in the three types of votes at the beginning of the message?
a. Political vote – Let’s say an old person votes for the political which only supports social measures; Sure, that person might get its pension higher, might get a smaller tax on some public funds, but:
i. the society itself might not develop as well;
ii. a rise in the pensions might lead to inflation, which might cut all the benefits of the increase, and put a burden on other people’s income;
My suggestion would be that old people vote for the best choice for the society, not for themselves; I think this is optimal for all society;
Now let’s say that X candidates for mayor; He has a lot of friends; In the same time Y candidates for mayor; Y has better skills with management and soft skills, but, being gone for a few years from the town, has fewer friends in town; Now, with whom should X’s friends vote for? I’d say they should vote for Y, this would be better for the city itself; Thinking for the good of others might lead into good for themselves;
b. Voting on Internet systems – Voting for yourself on the Internet is quite simple; Having a dynamic IP, an ability to delete cookies or switch browsers makes voting for oneself easy; And, at the end of the day, what do we get if 10 people of 100 fraud the system and are on the top 10 list? We get a fraudulent system, in which the best player is the one who cheats the most;
Then there’s the case in which I have 200 friends and send them all a message – “Hey, you’re my friend, you should vote for me!”; And the winner of such a system is not the person with the best value, it’s the person with most friends;
I showed above why voting for yourself or for your friends brings lower value into this world than voting for the good of others (thus voting for the best representative); So, the next time you see a list of 100 persons, and in that list there is just one person who shares the country with you, you should vote for the best person in the list, and not for the one person that shares a country with you;
c. Voting on casual events (choosing a team leader, for instance) – Yes, you can vote for the one person that:
i. Brings you the most benefits (you vote for yourself);
ii. You know very well (it’s a friend of yours);
But, for the good of the society in general, you should vote for the one person that is the best representative of the society.
Real life examples: you favor liberalism, and there are two candidates – one that favors only liberal measures, no social protection and another one that favors liberal measures, but keeps an eye open on the social measures. I think that for the well being of the society in general, one should vote for the latter. Sure, you, as a great business person, may not need pensions and state-funded schooling, but your society needs it. And, as unexpected as it may seem, if everybody else than you does fine, you’ll do fine also.
Now let’s say you’re on an instant messaging system and you get a “Vote for me” request from a friend. Hard as it may be, you shouldn’t vote for your friend.
You open a newspaper. Bold letters, large font: “Vote for Brancusi, the greatest sculptor in Romania in an international competition”. Well, how should I put this in simple words, but do you really think that Brancusi is the best artist in the world? If you don’t think so, vote for the person that deserves to be on top.
I hope I cleared a few things for you.













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