What Do You Think Of The Idea Of: "Government By Formula"?
How is this acceptable?
EG where you specify that some aspect of public policy or government is determined by a particular formula or equation within the given parameters. If A, then B. Does it seem potentially useful?
For instance, you can take the median income of the country, possibly adjusted by a factor punishing a high Gini coefficient and rewardng a lower coefficient, and use some multiple of that as the pay that politicians will get (which could be a multiplier of 1, but you can use something else).
Another might be fixing the size of the legislature to the cube root of the population, rounded up to the next odd number to prevent ties. You could perhaps make it a constitutional rule that the amount of money that a person is required to spend on healthcare in order to meet their basic medical needs cannot exceed some percentage of their household income per month, and if this does not occur, then the central budget picks up the tab above this threshold. This is probably not a good way of getting reelected if the tab if too high that it cuts into your ability to do other things you want with power, so you better truly believe your plan will work.
Fines for offenses could be determined like this too, such as how they could be a percentage of your income and not a specific fixed amount of money. This is often called a day fine if you are curious about it. You could perhaps also make repeat offenses, especially for any offense that is often seen as a mere cost of doing business, have the penalties raised to a certain exponent. If, based on what we can expect a well run and ethical company to do in a year let's say is 10 total violations of some thing per year, some typical minor infraction that are not too serious and are promptly dealt with and not systematic, then you can set the exponent such that the fine is not too burdensome, but if they rack up more than this, the exponent's power rises fast enough that it is going to sting you much harder. As an example, a fine of $10,000 with an exponent that begins with 1 and increases by 0.02 for each offense will give their second offense a fine of $10,965, their 6th offense is $25,119, and their 26th offense carries a fine of $1,000,000.
How is this acceptable?
EG where you specify that some aspect of public policy or government is determined by a particular formula or equation within the given parameters. If A, then B. Does it seem potentially useful?
For instance, you can take the median income of the country, possibly adjusted by a factor punishing a high Gini coefficient and rewardng a lower coefficient, and use some multiple of that as the pay that politicians will get (which could be a multiplier of 1, but you can use something else).
Another might be fixing the size of the legislature to the cube root of the population, rounded up to the next odd number to prevent ties. You could perhaps make it a constitutional rule that the amount of money that a person is required to spend on healthcare in order to meet their basic medical needs cannot exceed some percentage of their household income per month, and if this does not occur, then the central budget picks up the tab above this threshold. This is probably not a good way of getting reelected if the tab if too high that it cuts into your ability to do other things you want with power, so you better truly believe your plan will work.
Fines for offenses could be determined like this too, such as how they could be a percentage of your income and not a specific fixed amount of money. This is often called a day fine if you are curious about it. You could perhaps also make repeat offenses, especially for any offense that is often seen as a mere cost of doing business, have the penalties raised to a certain exponent. If, based on what we can expect a well run and ethical company to do in a year let's say is 10 total violations of some thing per year, some typical minor infraction that are not too serious and are promptly dealt with and not systematic, then you can set the exponent such that the fine is not too burdensome, but if they rack up more than this, the exponent's power rises fast enough that it is going to sting you much harder. As an example, a fine of $10,000 with an exponent that begins with 1 and increases by 0.02 for each offense will give their second offense a fine of $10,965, their 6th offense is $25,119, and their 26th offense carries a fine of $1,000,000.
What Do You Think Of The Idea Of: "Government By Formula"?
How is this acceptable?
EG where you specify that some aspect of public policy or government is determined by a particular formula or equation within the given parameters. If A, then B. Does it seem potentially useful?
For instance, you can take the median income of the country, possibly adjusted by a factor punishing a high Gini coefficient and rewardng a lower coefficient, and use some multiple of that as the pay that politicians will get (which could be a multiplier of 1, but you can use something else).
Another might be fixing the size of the legislature to the cube root of the population, rounded up to the next odd number to prevent ties. You could perhaps make it a constitutional rule that the amount of money that a person is required to spend on healthcare in order to meet their basic medical needs cannot exceed some percentage of their household income per month, and if this does not occur, then the central budget picks up the tab above this threshold. This is probably not a good way of getting reelected if the tab if too high that it cuts into your ability to do other things you want with power, so you better truly believe your plan will work.
Fines for offenses could be determined like this too, such as how they could be a percentage of your income and not a specific fixed amount of money. This is often called a day fine if you are curious about it. You could perhaps also make repeat offenses, especially for any offense that is often seen as a mere cost of doing business, have the penalties raised to a certain exponent. If, based on what we can expect a well run and ethical company to do in a year let's say is 10 total violations of some thing per year, some typical minor infraction that are not too serious and are promptly dealt with and not systematic, then you can set the exponent such that the fine is not too burdensome, but if they rack up more than this, the exponent's power rises fast enough that it is going to sting you much harder. As an example, a fine of $10,000 with an exponent that begins with 1 and increases by 0.02 for each offense will give their second offense a fine of $10,965, their 6th offense is $25,119, and their 26th offense carries a fine of $1,000,000.
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