Government doesn't scale easily, or well. But almost nothing does. And the trade-off for fewer representatives is even less access for citizens - if someone wants to, they can meet with their representative, or at least attend a (fairly small) town hall meeting with them.https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/931948690767364096 …
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The average citizen doesn't, but the average citizen never tried. Your "try for five minutes by the clock" standard is probably sufficient if you have some reason to want a meeting.
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That said, I agree that our current system is ridiculous, and agree that the number of people who get to vote on laws needs to be under a dozen for effective management. I was noting that the drawback- policy debates aren't one sided.
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But the average citizen *can* (with time & effort) affect their representative's election chances. And that's crude, but BIG.
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I think that's much less likely; most house members are in safe districts, and unseating them is very hard.
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Yes but someone at least vaguely similar to us (with similar interests) probably does get that acess. By reducing the number of reps you would make that less likely (all else equal).
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