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		causality0 on Nov 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Case for Abolishing Elections I've held this view for a long time, since the day I realized the average politician was morally inferior to the average citizen.

kqr on Nov 13, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, it's such an obvious selection bias toward good optics at the expense of content.

loicd on Nov 13, 2022 | [–]

The problem is that averages are constructs of the mind. It is a fallacy to think that random citizens are average citizens. You can average numbers, you cannot average people.

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