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Bruce Schneier is an excellent writer on security and tech, and for the past three years, he's organized annual workshops with experts in multiple fields to discuss reimagining democracy. This is a GREAT read.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/reimagining-democracy-2.html
@jake4480 read it: this based on US-centric thought, aimed at solving mostly US-centric problems. True, he does mention there are issues at global scale, and he pays some lip service to (the existence of) European nations, but I'm not seeing knowledge of different systems (plenty of democratic systems in Europe stem from the 19th century for instance) and the global problems he mentioned are economical in the basis. He's not once mentioned curtailing of money and media.
@jake4480 might be a bit early and I struggled keeping my thoughts in one toot, tone is neutral AF
@erikcats haha yeah- I mean, it's a little US-centric as here is one of the places that REALLY needs rethinking. I think an obvious answer to these problems would be 'do it like it's working in certain European countries' but my thoughts are of course sci-fi some, not NEEDING money in the future - obviously some kind of UBI. And of course the common retort by (idiots) people here when you mention successful European models is that it wouldn't scale or work here or in places with large populations. Yes and no.
But money is a huge issue, I read it as someone who already thinks capitalism is garbage, totally unproductive and unsustainable. It's wrecked shit in what, a few hundred years, and people have been around for thousands? Not a good look for capitalism
@jake4480 oh absolutely capitalism is garbage, totally unproductive and unsustainable, it's like a beached whale - it's run it's course, run aground and hollowed itself out and inflated itself with corpse gas. The problem is that the corpse is so big that we cannot get it out the way
@erikcats yeah, this. The wealthy that are so reliant on this system, all of it set up this way, for it to fail is going to be painful for everyone but will happen eventually. As the grifters and con men continue to squeeze
@jake4480 He is excellent. I used to read him quite a bit, but for some reason, he dropped off my radar. Nothing to do with him, just me being me...
@wendigo haha a fellow Schneier reader! Yeah, he's one of the few in my RSS reader. I really don't have a lot in there, maybe like 20 things or something. But he's one of the top ones I regularly read. Some stuff he writes about doesn't interest me, but it's usually 
- I get a LOT of tech scoops via his writing.