"I see great riches in this and great simplicity. It's sort of pointless for me to say, why on't we just get rid of everything we've got," he says. "There are two fundamental ways to represent the people three one is they can represent themselves through direct democracy." 'We even have the technology for that nowand i think that'd make things worse, not better'
Nicholas Gruen is a widely published policy economist, entrepreneur and commentator. He has advised Cabinet Ministers, sat on Australia’s Productivity Commission and founded Lateral Economics and Peach Financial. We discuss:
- Fast foodification of Democracy
- Isegoria, or equality of speech
- Pros and Cons of a citizen jury
- How citizen juries help in nuanced policy discussions
- Using philanthropy for political experiments
- And MUCH more!
Follow Nicholas on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NGruen1 and read his essays at https://clubtroppo.com.au