Why Not Have a Randomly Selected Congress?

Aksh Gupta
theaksheffect
Published in
1 min readDec 11, 2017

It is no secret that elected legislators are generally either inept or heinous. The data confirm that Congresspeople have a lower approval rating than marketing executives and bubonic plague. The only mystery, then, is why we keep them around.

Why Not Have a Randomly Selected Congress?

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Aksh Gupta
theaksheffect

Vision. Passion. Purpose. Futurist. Economist. Technologist. Founded @getOccasion. Talk Econ and Data to me.