Democracy and Pizza Toppings
If you have 2 groups wanting to order a pizza and some want one topping and the other want a different topping. How do they go about deciding what to get? They need to determine what the rules are to make the decision.
To expand the pizza argument. As Tim said, it’s NOT authoritarian if you agree to the rules.
Then complain about the outcome.
This Kenny guy sounds like he is a pure libertarian.
He wants everyone to fully agree to what pizza they get for it to not be Authoritarian.
That will NEVER happen.
What you want is to say Group A buys the pizza with pepperoni and Group B buys the pizza with pineapple.
But there’s a problem. The group needs to pool money together to afford 1 pizza.
So how does the group solve this problem?
You can divide the pizza in half one size for each topping.
But what if the pizza place doesn’t do that? or can’t be done?
Now they have to decide what pizza to get. And now we are back to the question of what the rules are to make the decision.
And this is democracy.
But a representational government, i.e. the Republic tries to balance out any opinions that may be lopsided for geographic reasons.
Let’s say that there is a pizza place a bit further away that does allow half and half toppings.
but the majority doesn’t want to drive that far to get it.
in a representational government, they could decide that it’s more far for everyone that they just go to the one that is further away.
Source:
Ian Asks How Meritocracy Can Be Brought Into The Economy
https://youtu.be/AX1JEdQWluA