Vote

Type: intangible
PROBLEM

The system requires participation to function and the participation has consequences the participant does not always track.

SOLUTION
The Vote is the atomic unit of democratic participation, a single expression of preference delivered into a system that aggregates it with all other expressions and produces an outcome that is binding on everyone including the people who did not express one. It costs nothing to cast. It cannot be transferred, sold, or delegated, though the conditions under which it is cast can be shaped considerably by anyone with enough resources and patience to do so. The Vote is most powerful in the hands of someone who understands that it is aimed at a system and not at a candidate, and least powerful in the hands of someone who casts it against their own interests with full conviction and a yard sign. It is the preferred tool of anyone who believes in the process, the preferred weapon of anyone who controls the process, and the preferred metric of anyone who is studying the process from a sufficient distance to find it fascinating. The Vote does not expire. It does not roll over. It does not accumulate. It resets. Every cycle it is exactly as powerful as it was the last time, which is either reassuring or exhausting depending on what happened last time.
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Schema
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    "name": "Vote",
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    "inputs": [],
    "outputs": [],
    "passthru": [],
    "children": [],
    "extends": null,
    "problem": "The system requires participation to function and the participation has consequences the participant does not always track.",
    "description": "The Vote is the atomic unit of democratic participation, a single expression of preference delivered into a system that aggregates it with all other expressions and produces an outcome that is binding on everyone including the people who did not express one. It costs nothing to cast. It cannot be transferred, sold, or delegated, though the conditions under which it is cast can be shaped considerably by anyone with enough resources and patience to do so. The Vote is most powerful in the hands of someone who understands that it is aimed at a system and not at a candidate, and least powerful in the hands of someone who casts it against their own interests with full conviction and a yard sign. It is the preferred tool of anyone who believes in the process, the preferred weapon of anyone who controls the process, and the preferred metric of anyone who is studying the process from a sufficient distance to find it fascinating. The Vote does not expire. It does not roll over. It does not accumulate. It resets. Every cycle it is exactly as powerful as it was the last time, which is either reassuring or exhausting depending on what happened last time.",
    "template": "intangible"
}

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