{"id":3096,"date":"2025-07-09T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/wallets-over-votes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:44:45","slug":"wallets-over-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/wallets-over-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallets Over Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We hire politicians by voting for them based on their promises, ideals and principles. Some of them turn around and sell out their employers to 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;parties for more money than they can make honorably serving their trustees. When these politicians appoint business owners to accomplish certain objectives and those objectives\/means\/policies then don&#8217;t align with the citizens that voted for the politicians, ceasing to purchase goods\/services sold by the business owner is a legitimate (and very effective) means of voting disapproval of the un-elected individual. In an environment where civilian citizens are losing more and more of the levers of control to concentrated wealth and fringe ideologies, democracy has a better chance when additional legitimate levers are applied to achieve a favorable outcome for the greater public population.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(This post was refined in collaboration with Anthropic\u2019s Claude)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hire politicians by voting for them based on their promises, ideals and principles. Some of them turn around and sell out their employers to 3rd&nbsp;parties for more money than they can make honorably serving their trustees. When these politicians appoint business owners to accomplish certain objectives and those objectives\/means\/policies then don&#8217;t align with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cranialspark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}