As much as I like the idea of starting all over again the people who will need to be the ones spearheading starting all over again aren't likely to be in positions to be able to do so and then all we end up with is the same thing with different people at the top pretending that somehow the exact same bullshit will magically be different/better because they're the ones in charge now.
ideally I'm wrong there and there's a lot more people with good ideas than we realise because the media will never ever cover anything in the same universe as actually informative and useful because that doesn't make money or something
As eldest and I were hiking over to our local polling booth (it's a really easy walk and we were walking pretty fast as we were worried about getting rained on but I was not driving down the freaking road XD) we were discussing using blockchain for voting and how that could be authenticated and anonymised, so there's hope somewhere.
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This is why the billionaires are having so many babies.
You'd think this would be one of the lowest hanging fruits to make elections better and more convenient for everyone. I mean, I do my taxes online and sign in with bank details - is it that hard to have a vote?
So many babies sounds like a recipe for fratricide if all of them get too greedy and want all the billions for themselves even though one billion is probably more than adequate XD
seems to be just how things roll
It might be one of those things where "everyone" (whoever that is) is actively avoiding dealing with the research/costs/logistics/etc of implementing blockchain infrastructure for something like that even if studies etc wereshow that it would be infinitely better/more secure/cost effective/etc in the long term because as we all know shareholder profits right this very second is infinitely more important than anything else could ever be and also that might upset the status quo too much and that's something else that has to be avoided at any and all cost. I remember one of the companies J worked for previously who insisted on forcing the IT and dev teams to mollycoddle along a 20something year old database (which sounds like it had to have the most disgusting hackiest patches to keep it going never mind doing what it was meant to be doing) because they refused under any circumstances to "waste" the (rather large amount of) money and time on upgrading and refactoring everything even though it would have made everything better.