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This sub-heading used for the Vote Sizing Institute website could also apply to the old notion we had of forming a political party to scale the vote. Rather than creating new parties like the DEP why not join an existing party and 'change "it" from within' where the party becomes a vehicle for your cause? We have found that new political parties struggle to attract members and influence people like the traditional 3 always...
Introduction
The struggle between the ruler and the ruled has a long and chequered history. There was a time when rulers were perceived as emerging from heaven and therefore, having divine rights, and nobody could dare oppose (or challenge) their authority. As time went on, it was realised that government should and must be for the interest of the people. But this transition was not without resistance. The English revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of...
Instructions:
Most flocking simulators based on Conway's Game of Life (ie: simulated birds flying in somewhat erratic circles) model social interaction by using interdependent formulas to try and guess what people will do, and where they'll go; in order to get what they need.
The in development political / economic model below is slightly different in that it has citizens staying put; while wealth and power flock around them.
The goal of the game is to:
Create and combine formulas...
Empowerment Inc. is an exciting new offshoot of vote sizing. Just as the Democratic Empowerment Party is the political arm of vote sizing (itself the social manifestation of the fair choice) - Empowerment Inc. is vote sizing's economic arm.
Excerpted from: Empowerment Inc. Shareholders’ Agreement
0.1 Warranties of the Corporation. The Corporation warrants...
Upload your own vote sized student survey's here.
See an example of vote sized learning here.
View results from classroom survey's here.
Read the academic dissertation here.
Stretching convention farther than Empowerment Incorporated, and pushing the progressive envelope farther than the vote flocking game is vote sized learning.
Vote sized learning uses vote sizing in a classroom environment, to give the worst performing students more say in determining the curriculum.
Allowing the...
There are five main areas of society that vote sizing is currently trying to be applied to:
Politics: Democratic Empowerment Party, Fair Choice Party.
Economics: Empowerment Inc.
Academia: Vote Sized Learning.
On-Line: Vote sized polls.
Simulation: Vote flocking game.
... with two more areas we have not yet explored:
Sports: Vote sized performance.
Punishment: Vote sized prisons.
... please see the following pages for more information.
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Close Fair Choice! Can you imagine a world...
Can "1-person 1-Vote" model of democracy as shown by this sketch, really take us to Democracy? This is where the idea of "Vote Sizing" democratic approach challenges 1-person 1-vote.
Index
Measuring Wealth
External Wealth: Influence
Internal Wealth: Assets - Debts
Synthesis Wealth: Income - Expenses
Relating Wealth
Specific Wealth
Wealth Position
Averaging
Different Vote Sizing Formulas
Arc Sizing
Inverse Wealth Sizing
1 + Sizing
Computerized Sizing
Vote Sizing in Operation!
PHP Vote Sizing Code
If you've read our feasibility page, you know that vote sizing is possible now - we can do it. So now let's talk about how we'll do it. First off, if you...
Index
Reinventing the Wheel - Feasibility
Technological Frontiers
Language - Private Property
Writing - Rule of Law
Currency - Wage Labor
Printing Press - Representation
Industry - Vote
Computers - Vote Tabulating
The Vote Sizing Revolution
If you’ve read through our issues section, you’ll know that due to a vast array of corruption breakdowns (tyranny, brutality, patronage and greed) things haven’t been copasetic for quite a long while. However, it’s not like...
The shift from a harmonious pyramid society to a corrupted hourglass one is not sudden - it takes place in subtle and gradual ways. As the creatures who seek stability yet find ourselves surrounded by unstable and opaque institutions - where wealth (intake) and power (outtake) are heavily intermixed - we tolerate, accept, and internalize the model; becoming unbalanced too. We don't just become part of the corruption hourglass... it also becomes us! We direct our anxiety inwards, we shift...
Index
Reaction
What to Expect
Reactionary Strategies
Ignoring
Laughter / Scorn
Fight / Overreacting
GRIDLOCK!
Planning
Redirection
Drawing Up the Bottom
Drawing Out the Top
Drawing Out the Middle
Then...?
Forever Silenced
Success
Preempted
As far as outlining the evolution of vote sizing, this page is the end of the line.
We've already outlined vote sizing's goals, what we're not, and proactive things to do to get the word out. We're predicting that with this information a small (and...
Index
Life Cycle of the DEP
Word-of-Mouth Discussion
Vote Sizing Ice Breakers
Probe Deeper into Vote Sizing
Vote Sizing Talking Points
A Fringe Political Party is Born
Media Kit
Taking on the Corrupt System
Involvement Opportunities
Interactive version here
Enough talk about the problems with our world, our vision for how our world could be with vote sizing, and how vote sizing is...
Index
Who Needs What?
How to provide for maximum reward?
Who Gets What?
Greed Playbook
Weighted Money
Inflation
Banking/Interest
Market Bubbles
Taxes
The Black Market
Bureaucracy
The Welfare State
The Military State
Colonialism by Force
Chaos/War Profiteering
Colonialism by Influence
Unfair Loans/Trade/Aid
Colonialism by Disdain
Depleting Resources
Water
Forests/Grasslands/Pastures
Air
Fuel
Breaking Sacred Circles
Protein Chain
Germ Chain
Toxin Chain
Carbon Chains
There Is Hope!
To review...
Index
Rising with Ability: The Opportunity Pyramid
Doing No Wrong: The Patronage Hourglass
Getting Ahead Quiz
21st Century, Bottom-Up, Caste System
Iron-Age Bottom
Refugees
Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs)
Homelessness
Externally Organized Labor
Petroleum-Age Middle
Ye Old White Boy's Club
Bribes & Nepotism
The Heavy Toll - Pollution
Information-Age Top
Revolving Doors
Lobbyists
Unfair Subsidies / Loans / Trade / Aid
Corporations
Patronage's Henchmen
Academia
Media...
Index
Who Ya Gonna Call? - Brutality
Legal Foundations
Elder
Rhetorical
Religious/Written
Feudal
Modern
Legal Structures - Good and Bad
Corrupted Justice: Brutality Hourglass
Brutal, or Evil?
Life in Brutal Times
Perpetrators of Brutality - The Dysfunctional Top
Organized Crime
Corporate Crime
Teflon Bullies
Martial Law
War/War Profiteering
Fear Mongering
Nuclear Threats
Keepers of Disorder - The Squeezed Middle
Bribery
Police
Prisons
Soldiers: Willing and Unwilling...
Page Index
Roots of Corruption
Avalanche of corruption
Pyramids vs. Hourglasses
The \Dysfunctional/ Top
The /Crunched\ Bottom
The |Squeezed| Middle
Internalizing Corruption
Meeting the Challenge
Where does corruption start?
Corruption is a very serious phenomenon that affects us all greatly, yet it is a term that can be applied to many different things and in many different ways. On this page, we're going to try to whittle down our definitions so that we have a better understanding of...
Index
Focused Energy
Life Cycle of the DEP
Word-of-Mouth Discussion
Vote Sizing Ice Breakers
Probe Deeper into Vote Sizing
Vote Sizing Talking Points
A Fringe Political Party is Born
Media Kit
Taking on the Corrupt System
Involvement Opportunities
Interactive version here
Enough talk about the problems with our world, our vision for how our world could be with vote sizing, and how vote...
Index
What Vote Sizing Isn't:
A means of redistributing wealth
An anti-poverty movement
Marxism or communism
A utopian dream
Representational voting
In favor of sizing votes according to tests or abilities
Violent activism
The whole notion of vote sizing is so radically new that it naturally evokes many misunderstandings; so rather than try to explain all of it at once, perhaps the easiest approach to take is by first discovering what vote sizing is not.
As we're gong to...
The idea of vote sizing is to enhance the way that elections are held by involving computers to adjust the size, or weight, of individual votes. When most of us think of voting, we think of voting for president, but this new kind of ballot counting can be put anywhere there are people who want to collectively make decisions - for example, in companies, in co-operatives, unions, schools, or various levels of government postings like mayors, etc.
First we need to address the feasibility of vote...
Vote sizing is an innovative and provocative new way to design dynamic social systems by factoring in the ability to harness natural 'human' emotions such as satisfaction, inclusion, psychology and independent choice; into the collective decision-making process.
Vote sizing can be implemented in many situations; such as in political models, economic models, academic models... and anywhere else where people may want to hold elections in order to reach consensus. In this evaluation, we're going...