Dorms, cafeteria food, and minimum wage are not things that most Americans would want. It would really only be a benefit to those already making minimum wage (or unemployed) and without families. For the rest those would be motives for corruption, rather than the opposite.
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discocactus@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’ve said this for years. Live in dorms. Cafeteria food. Minimum wage. All assets put into trust and in a vanilla total market fund for 5-10 years after service. It should be like jury duty. I’ve not met a single person who disagrees with this system.
ThisUsernameKillsFascists@piefed.social 7 hours ago
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 23 hours ago
Oh look! You’ve made the bribery problem even worse.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Most importantly, 24/7 surveillance. No secrets. No back room deals.
Serinus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No one should live under 24/7 surveillance.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Lots of us, maybe even most, are under surveillance every minute we are at our job. A politician’s job is 24/7 while they are in office. It wouldn’t be necessary if politicians never lied or took bribes, but we live in reality.
TheMightyCat@ani.social 23 hours ago
Well consider me the first.
Then first the plan won’t work, those dorms will be run by the very government politicians they are supposed to make miserable. so they won’t.
And why must that be a goal in the first place? Instead of improving democracy so that politicians aren’t in the pockets of PACs and actually represent the people, you want to just make them both miserable and now unelected.
If you want that random people are in charge instead of politicians a direct democracy system will work far better then this.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Who said anything about making them miserable? That isn’t, and shouldn’t be, the goal. The goal is to remove incentives to be corrupt.
A nice dorm and high quality food provided to them removes some of that.
Locking assets into total market funds removes incentive to inside trade, because you can’t.
jj4211@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Think this assumes those selected have no friends or family. You can’t uproot a whole family, and it would be unreasonable to break up a family for the extended period of time you imagine.
In practice, it does become making them miserable, because it’s literally forced relocation and isolation from their friends, family, and financial resources.
TheMightyCat@ani.social 21 hours ago
I got that from this statement, my mistake then.