Person A: Indians [in India] are underrepresented. 545 MPs [Members of Parliment] for 1.2 billion people.
Me: Exactly. That's 2.2 million people per representative, right?
Person A: :) Correct
Person C: What would be a reasonable number of people per MP?
Person A: A million?
Me: Even with 500,000 voters per member of Congress in the USA [our current average], it's way too many. People aren't people anymore when there are that many. We become faceless statistics to government. Our humanity is lost. The sheer size of such a system is doomed from the start. The alternatives include letting the huge country dissolve into smaller pieces, smaller and smaller until people can become people to each other again.
Me: Exactly. That's 2.2 million people per representative, right?
Person A: :) Correct
Person C: What would be a reasonable number of people per MP?
Person A: A million?
Me: Even with 500,000 voters per member of Congress in the USA [our current average], it's way too many. People aren't people anymore when there are that many. We become faceless statistics to government. Our humanity is lost. The sheer size of such a system is doomed from the start. The alternatives include letting the huge country dissolve into smaller pieces, smaller and smaller until people can become people to each other again.
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