[tangential] Why voting is evil

David Gerard <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jul 2013 11:38:22 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english,gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation
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Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, "Swarmwise", on how the Pirate
Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog.

You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that "voting is
evil"? This sets out why.

   http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/01/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world-chapter-six/

tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage.


- d.

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