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    [–]goatmeal 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    lots of people would die or starve

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      [–]flugegeheimen 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

      Try to get 12 people to agree and you have a trial.

      So much this. After watching in reality how a group of random people tries to make a decision, it's basically herding cats getting exponentially harder with every new participant added. That's why I can't take seriously phrases starting with "Imagine if everyone" or direct democracy fantasies.