{"id":5532,"date":"2016-11-08T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","slug":"why-voting-doesnt-make-anyone-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/why-voting-doesnt-make-anyone-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why voting doesn&#8217;t make anyone happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The Exploratorium explains voting paradoxes](https:\/\/youtu.be\/tJag3vuG834), and why, no matter what happens tomorrow, no one will really be happy: <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJag3vuG834?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or is it because [society is too complex for us to even understand our choices](http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/society-is-too-complicated-to-have-a-president-complex-mathematics-suggest)?<\/p>\n<p>> \u201cWe\u2019ve become fundamentally confused about what the decisions are, and what their consequences are. And we can\u2019t make a connection between them,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd that\u2019s true about everybody, as well as about the decision-makers, the policymaker. They don\u2019t know what the effects will be of the decisions that they\u2019re making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/LRsP7LIkzug4LKgFcFkFjOxdYbduPfnZcjCxm9wc-HZrxM53E-Eq8npBjMH4S9xsJoSmgauCJYAdREozKDcoCmqdNe6FajzD8Ns-qRT2KhnxF8VbpA6DTtL4QNwV-1deM2cnVSh3NGz7HMQw5mooQ0BdjJV6K05MkDNLWJmdJs9b8OWtQPXRoZytF6kFVhsQn5EUFVeh5KvwWmVmDmEXP-RKQZFzyIGWfp5bQDdYiUFGSldOswIabxi3Ib75LbZVgskFFYEs11InrrCGAiJTss2oLRWcYavTPkYrO3SpsB8tlDU0-YxUyqa4kFx7VXy1u0TKdPewD_AOOh4urFq-uhM3He2XmQT8QxJ-tFRnaf7ZavYIqR6FyJmEb-eClAChriueiWjzfnn0lFet58I2IAotVKs4JcbN6KQPeDfSx6o7Q-_ee_S2gUoSXb48LQwcVQ6LZcrJFGtU-irH7jiDLLBoWs3VApGc8KWsbWNYOROn8hi94evWaSAlm7K6ZRc-FqPOcsO6hQWUhDOMx8OtKlg3u8OUCu4oLEJHnr0wsdSdKhMaJa1vDfpGvRfbMWtNQttajKGSJAEkulIMECGUd9shO3ndR4gHAoCNiFPFSWqFbyYGYQ=w1220-h766-no\" style=\"width:500px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Arrow even won the Nobel Prize for proving that [when there are 3 or more choices, no system is guaranteed to choose an optimal winner](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem).<\/p>\n<p>Smaller decisions with smaller groups are more likely to work, but still fraught with peril. But go vote tomorrow, and [may the odds be ever in your favor](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_s7qgNMqDJI)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The Exploratorium explains voting paradoxes](https:\/\/youtu.be\/tJag3vuG834), and why, no matter what happens tomorrow, no one will really be happy: Or is it because [society is too complex for us to even understand our choices](http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/society-is-too-complicated-to-have-a-president-complex-mathematics-suggest)? > \u201cWe\u2019ve become fundamentally confused about what the decisions are, and what their consequences are. And we can\u2019t make a connection between&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/why-voting-doesnt-make-anyone-happy\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,160,377,384],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decisions","category-networks-2","category-politics-2","category-world","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}