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No voter can master every issue, and few voters try. Any democratic system must cope with that. Referendums, instead, invite us to ignore the question, give the snake-oil peddlers an edge, concentrate our ignorance into a tightly focused beam, and hold nobody accountable for results. They magnify the vulnerabilities of our democracies and diminish their defences.
How Referendums Break Democracies
Fran Monks
Curiosity: “I wonder what would happen if …”
Imagination: “Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if … ?”
Drive: “I will not accept ‘no.’ There has got to be a better way!”
Hacking Work
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein
Erfindet stattdessen neue Sprachbilder, die zu eurem Thema passen. Geht es beispielsweise um die Wasserwirtschaft, schreibt „sprudelt wie Kohlensäure“ oder „trennt sich Sekt von Selters“.
50 Hacks für 5.000 Subscriber - by Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer
50 Hacks für 5.000 Subscriber
Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer
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