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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 days ago

It's unfortunate that the US founding fathers were well educated, but from a time 200 years before Game Theory was understood.

Duverger's Law says that in a first-past-the-post system, you'll eventually end up with 2 political parties. And, 2 political parties is a terrible state for a country.

Also, you're eventually going to get political parties even if you try to ban them. They'll just become "clubs" or something. A group of people agreeing to act together (say a union) is always going to have more power than a bunch of people acting individually.

I would hope that any country thinking of creating a new political system, or making major updates to theirs would hire a lot of game theorists to figure out how the rules could be abused and what the system might look like in 250 years.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 13 points 2 days ago

Veritasium did a great presentation on the different voting systems and there really isn't a perfect one, but first past the post is definitely not even close to the "best".

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Veritasium didn't really give the full picture though. He was only really looking at rated based voting systems, but there are more systems out there than that.

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