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Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig argues that US democracy is corrupted by money, since a tiny fraction of the population effectively funds who gets elected. He says fixing this must come before addressing issues like climate change or student debt.

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Why HN readers recommended it

It is HN's go-to link in threads on lobbying, campaign finance and political dysfunction, as a clear statement of Lessig's root-cause argument.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
TEDx Talks
Topic
money in politics
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
12
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • I've spent large amounts of time in other countries. America is an absolute embarrassment. There are countries you can go where it feels like the government actually cares about trying to help people have a better life. There are countries where infrastructure projects get completed. …

    hayst4ck on Hacker News · 2024-03
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  • The problem is that what we understand as theoretical democracy and what is generally practically applied on the ground are two philosophically different things. An anti-thesis of democracy itself. Prof Lawrence Lessig of Harvard nails it when he calls this type of corruption of democracy …

    ak39 on Hacker News · 2017-06
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  • Larry Lessig backs both net neutrality and democracy. See his plan for restoring democracy to the United States: [VIDEO] The main points are: 1) Citizen funded campaigns 2) Equal representation (ie, Proportional Representation) 3) Equal freedom to vote

    lambertsimnel on Hacker News · 2017-09
    In Wozniak and Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it

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