On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Doug Heimbecker <drh@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Not to say I'm all in for communism... but communism failed for the same >> reason capitalism is failing. Corruption! > > > Here might be a way to deal with this political issue, while keeping on > topic with the "world peace PHP project": > > I've had this idea for years, but why not start a "technocracy" or "ultra > social-democracy" that runs on a decentralized server, kind of like P2P > (Kad, Bitcoins, etc.) -- only problem being the logic running the system > (say, PHP scripts) would need to be programmed as a whole (so anyone could > re-program the structure of such a social system, so it functioned the way > everyone wanted). Think Wikipedia, but completely decentralized -- nobody > could "corrupt" the system unless they were a majority. This seems to be the > direction we're heading in -- what with hidden corruption, and most > governments being slow processing laws, reforms, etc. "unless they were a majority" is the thing that bothers me. Getting a majority is hard, take for example the Dutch Politics [1]. Our country is now led by a parliament of 10 different political parties. Getting things done now is really hard, because each party has their own goals and finding a majority is for almost impossible. If all the parties were strictly following their own will, there would probably only a handful things done. The only way to get things done now is by making compromises. Another example is of course religion [2]. You can see that there's no majority there. Christianity being the largest with 33%. Even if that would be over 50%, you won't get peace if you say Christianity is the only correct religion.. - Matijn [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Netherlands [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
