César Hidalgo: A bold idea to replace politicians

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Is it just me, or are there other people here that are a little bit disappointed with democracy?

So let's look at a few numbers.

If we look across the world, the median turnout in presidential elections over the last 30 years has been just 67 percent.

Now, if we go to Europe and we look at people that participated in EU parliamentary elections, the median turnout in those elections is just 42 percent.

Now let's go to New York, and let's see how many people voted in the last election for mayor.

We will find that only 24 percent of people showed up to vote.

What that means is that, if "Friends" was still running,

Joey and maybe Phoebe would have shown up to vote.

And you cannot blame them because people are tired of politicians.

And people are tired of other people using the data that they have generated to communicate with their friends and family, to target political propaganda at them.

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