Math doesn’t tell us what outcome to prefer — only how to accomplish it once we do. Eg, do we prefer an outcome that gives everyone maximum individual impact or one that maximally balances the power of racial tribes?
The reason the US doesn’t use math to solve gerrymandering is that it prefers to have districts focus on maximizing the power of minority racial tribes ahead of equal representation of all voters.
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Of course, that’s a contentious choice — with some people believing that such racist policies favoring minority groups are akin to the divide-and-conquer used to subjugate India by the British.
Understanding the pushback against “DIE” requires understanding the view of elites engaging in neo-colonial tactics to subjugate the average American, eg by disrupting class movements along racial fault lines.