Posted by geekamongus 1 day ago
Instead of a real estate tycoon, you are an elected steward of the building, held responsible by the Assembly. Homes are allocated off a waitlist, dues are set on a sliding scale, and you face outside pressures from neighboring capitalist landlords.
The crown jewel is attracting a large grant to establish an observatory at the top of your tower, attracting scientists. To get there, you must make sure the people are fed, housed, healthy, and entertained. If the Assembly doesn't have confidence in your abilities, you get voted out.
It kinda works, and the potential failures in the game are pretty unique. I'd be interested to hear HN's take. An entire SimCity clone based on a different economy like this could be fun.
From whom?
...The earliest strong match located by QI appeared in 1955 within a periodical called “The Commonwealth: Official Journal of the Commonwealth Club of California”. The club is a non-profit public affairs organization. The quotation [by Major George Racey Jordan] appeared as a filler item.If not, it's giving "We're tying ourselves up with the rope the capitalists sold us".
I acknowledge the irony though.
Imagine how the political landscape in the US would look like if people's votes were actually equal.
Someone almost bought that election. That it didn't quite work doesn't make it a good scenario.
This PAC influence being putatively for buying advertising, to you know influence individual voters to their point of view? They can’t literally buy votes.
So votes only matter if they’re not influenced by PACs? Perhaps it’s more that if a voter agrees with a capitalist PAC then it’s no longer a valid individual vote? It smacks of anti-democratic value that the masses are too dumb to vote correctly.
Counterpoint: Haley Stevens Brad Daigle Jon Tester Sherrod Brown Tom Steyer Hillary Clinton Michael Bloomberg (the list is long)
You need "some amount of money" to compete in elections, but the "money correlates to votes" is canard.
The whole modern democratic socialist movement as I understand it is primarily to fix exactly that issue.