Venkatesh Rao

We talk about post-capitalism like it’s a thing, but not post-democracy. All post-democracy paths seem like reactionary paths backwards. I suspect post-capitalism seems more real because it feels like we can improve on money as a technology but not on voting as a technology.

People talk about “governance futurism” and the “post-liberal future” though. I think the key distinction is that “democracy” is an aspirational label; much of the game is about building a _more_ responsive system of representation than what you have in a “democracy.”