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What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is naive me, but having a robust, online voting system would make it a lot easier for direct democracy.

But we would also have to pressure politicians into using that system.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I actually question if direct democracy would be good, after the amount of exposure to typical voters I've had, lol. Representatives can be questionable, but at least they know what they're deciding on.

Autocracy is just completely awful and depressing, though. No doubt about that.