"Quote-tweets of the form "You've invented <thing that already exists>" are almost always false. That form of witticism must for some reason be especially attractive to the mistaken."
Yeah, an autonomous, dynamically routed minibus that might significantly extend the reach and lower the cost of public transport. Not good enough for you?
Yep. They block Bitcoin purchases on credit cards (read: short term loans from the bank) because they don't want to be left holding the bag when Bitcoin prices drop.
The number one indicator of your class standing is your parents' class standing. There is no American Dream, and "Rags to Riches" is more luck than skill and effort.
This article leaves out proportional representation and single transferable vote. PR is widely used in many democracies and should be considered for the U.S. Senate. Specifically, mixed member proportional which allows each district (in our case State) to elect one member to the legislature and then the rest of the 50 seats would be filled to create the closet proportion to popular support each party has. Single transferable vote, which is actually used in some democracies, would fit the House of Representatives quite well.
Duverger's law tells us that we will not see electoral diversity in the U.S. until we change the way we vote.
STV is a PR system, just one that retains candidate-focussed preference ballots and doesn't resort to party lists for who gets elected (MMP uses candidate-centered ballots, but also uses party lists to fill the additional seats.)
