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Have It Your Way - The Vote Flocking Simulation
Book Page / Article, Interactive / Flash Presentation, Simulation, Text
2 years 1 day ago
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...    
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Vote Sizing Pyramids and Corruption Hourglasses
Appendix / Multimedia / Flash Presentation
3 years 50 weeks ago
There's a lot to corruption, but hopefully by first understanding what it is that's being corrupted, we can see how to defeat it. (This is a 7mB movie, so please be patient as it takes time to load.)     
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Wealth vs. Power Curves and (some) Voting Formulas
Appendix / Multimedia / Flash Presentation
3 years 50 weeks ago
The vote sizing concept opens up the door to a variety of different formulations - depending on what our goals are. In this movie we'll briefly outline a few of them and why they would be helpful.     
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Value Systems and Corruption
Appendix / Multimedia / Flash Presentation
3 years 50 weeks ago
Power, expressed as government, and wealth as the market can work together to offer a large comfort zone for it's citizens. However, corruption can also do it's work on that system, and by blurring the boundaries place us in a unstable and unsatisfactory situation.     
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Philosophical Roots of Vote Sizing - How Wealth and Power are Inherently Different
Appendix / Multimedia / Flash Presentation
3 years 50 weeks ago
In this flash movie, by comparing the fundamental perspectives of Hegel, Marx and the Existentialists, we'll see how individual humans form social bubbles; and how these bubbles can then function in either corrupt or harmonious ways.     
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Vote Sizing Symmetry
Appendix / Interactive / Chart, Flash Presentation
3 years 51 weeks ago
There are a few expansive terms we use on this site to describe the wide reach of vote sizing.  The challenge is that corruption works like a disease on our society, attacking us in different ways and on different levels. The good news is that we can identify symptoms of being trapped in this hourglass if we are clear. Click on different parts of the chart (or legend) below to see how different components of our world interact to make everything either work well, or work poorly: {...    
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