{"id":267,"date":"2003-03-09T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2003-03-09T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2003-03-09T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2003-03-09T13:24:29","slug":"emergent-democracy-and-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Democracy and Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As posted in comments to <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2003\/03\/09\/emegent_democracy_brainstorming_with_john_vasconcellos_and_friends.html\">Joi Ito&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nMuch of our &#8220;electronic democracy&#8221; discussion focuses on processes of organizing, deliberation and decision-making.<br \/>\nHowever, in the US, an elected representative spends 80% of his or her time &#8212; not deliberating, or organizing, or making laws &#8212; but raising money.<br \/>\nAny proposal for new ways of doing things needs to take money into account.<br \/>\nRecently, I heard of a new system for online political organizing, which was essentially multi-level marketing. A central organization sends financial targets to regional organizations, which sends targets to local organizations, which raise money and feed the money back up the chain.<br \/>\nAre new proposed mechanisms of organizing cheaper that the methods we have now? If not then we&#8217;re stuck in the oligopoly trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As posted in comments to Joi Ito&#8217;s blog&#8230; Much of our &#8220;electronic democracy&#8221; discussion focuses on processes of organizing, deliberation and decision-making. However, in the US, an elected representative spends 80% of his or her time &#8212; not deliberating, or organizing, or making laws &#8212; but raising money. Any proposal for new ways of doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emergent Democracy and Cash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}