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Is it possible for the open source community to collectively run for office?

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Or a person whose only campaign promise is to listen to a crypto or open source decision making body? Is that dystopian? Putting some cyber punks in charge?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party in various countries is the closest I'm aware of. These days a party needs a program though and that needs to cover a wide variety of issues, relevant to the main cause or not. So suddenly the stance on family or taxation needs to be determined inside the party, it's more complex than I first imagined.

It would be interesting to see someone run for office and essentially let their constituents vote on everything, the elected person essentially acting as their representative. Using technology it could be very effective. Or it could massively backfire. Maybe it would be easier to just survey people and see what they think, mostly basing legislative votes on that.

Here in the US, the concept of representatives was formed before any of our modern forms of communication came about. You could argue we need much less politicians, like say half of the House (the part of congress based on population) because its much easier to communicate on things.

Which parliament are you even referring to? US, UK, EU, other…?

And are you sure “the open source community” would be able to agree on a shared agenda? When it comes to stuff like taxes, funding of healthcare, gun laws, abortion, etc etc.

It would be similar to governance for crypto's. Take the lessons of the open source community, apply them too legal code. Take the successes up crypto governances, and apply them to political seats. I can tell your frustration and skepticism means it must be a good idea! I feel quite good about putting seats in high offices in the hands of those who own the most of a digital token.

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