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  • Helen of Troy was so beautiful she launched a thousand ships, so you can measure beauty in miliHelens based on how many ships are launched and ugliness in negative (how many ships are launched in the opposite direction).

  • I had a super cynical dystopian idea. Never got around to fleshing it out, so its stability is doubtful at best, but here goes:

    So a problem with democracy is that advertising is a powerful force and the candidate with more money to throw into their campaign tends to win, not to mention various forms of bribery coming into play after the elections. A ton of money is being wasted on shady behind-the-scenes deals. Lets get rid of all that and bring it into the light!

    • Get rid of elections AND politicians, since they are just middlemen. Instead create a kind of stock market for various spheres and levels of lawmaking and have megacorporations and other interested parties bid on those.
    • Money that would have been secretly funneled into politician pockets instead goes openly into the government budget.
    • Save more money on elections and government official salaries since there are none.
    • Corps that make laws that benefit consumers get to use that in their advertising. Buy from ProcLive! The company that brought you halfway decent healthcare!
    • Voting with you wallet ends up being mandatory. You don't like that Disney took away weekends? Give your hard-earned cash to Sony next time. They promised to reduce mamdatory weekly working hours to 65!
    • Maybe sometimes a local citizen initiative manages to raise enough money to get governmental powers in a small town or something. I mean, probably not, but you gotta give people some hope, right?