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By Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology

They Don’t Represent Us — with Larry Lessig

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Published October 20, 2022 4:00am

We often talk about the need to protect American democracy. But perhaps those of us in the United States don't currently live in a democracy.

As research shows, there's pretty much no correlation between the percentage of the population that supports a policy and its likelihood of being enacted. The strongest determinant of whether a policy gets enacted is how much money is behind it.

So, how might we not just protect, but better yet revive our democracy? How might we revive  the relationship between the will of the people and the actions of our g...

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