쉐도잉 연습: What if your president was chosen via lottery? - Michael Vazquez - YouTube로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Elections— often called the cornerstone of democracy— are tools that ensure a nation's citizens all have an equal political voice.
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Elections— often called the cornerstone of democracy— are tools that ensure a nation's citizens all have an equal political voice.
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But these so-called “great equalizers” have long been plagued by corruption, partisan divides, and uninformed voters.
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Which is why some of democracy’s first and most famous practitioners used a different approach.
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From 508 to 322 BCE, Athens increasingly moved away from elected officials.
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Outside specialized positions like military generals and senior finance officers, most legislative, executive, and judicial roles were appointed via lottery.
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Starting at age 30, citizens could place a token with their name into an allotment machine.
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These machines appointed citizens to government positions through a process designed to ensure randomness and prevent fraud.
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Before getting the job, chosen candidates underwent a public examination to investigate their character, and those that passed would typically serve for a single year.
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When their term ended, they underwent another public review to investigate their conduct and financial dealings while in office.
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This system was called sortition, and its goal was to promote political equality.
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In fact, Athenians saw lotteries as more democratic than voting, since they believed elections favored the wealthy and well-connected.
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Random appointees, on the other hand, were ordinary citizens stepping up to fulfill their civic duty.
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And since most offices didn't allow repeat terms, sortition prevented people from gaining too much political influence.
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Of course, this system was far from perfect.
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Athenian sortition excluded women, foreign-born residents, and enslaved peoples.
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And, as philosophers like Plato and Aristotle pointed out, political decision-making requires expertise, a quality that's difficult to develop in short appointments, and can't be guaranteed by random selection.
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But broadly, this lottery-based system had strong public support.
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It was the dominant form of democracy during Athens’ Golden Age, and it only truly ended when Athens’ conquerors abolished democracy altogether.
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So if sortition provided stability then, could it do so now?
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Political philosopher Alex Guerrero thinks it could, and he’s even proposed a modern American version of sortition that he calls lottocracy.
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Here’s how it works: rather than relying on one decision-making body for every issue, Guerrero proposes multiple assemblies, each dedicated to a specific policy area.
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These single-issue, lottery-selected legislatures, or SILLs, are made up of hundreds of randomly chosen citizens who get trained in their assembly’s topic area by experts and advocates.
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Then, after consulting with the public to get their perspective, the members of a SILL draft and vote on topic-specific policies.
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This system extends all the way to the top, distributing even the powers of the presidency across a network lottery-filled Executive Assemblies and the administrative officials they appoint.
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Advocates of lottocracy believe it could address three of the biggest problems facing modern democracies.
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First, unequal representation.
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Since successful election campaigns require money and influence, many elected officials are much wealthier than the average voter.
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At various points from 2014 to 2025, half of US Congress members were millionaires.
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Problem two: most candidates rely on donations from individuals, corporations, and special interest groups who may try to influence their policies.
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Lottocracy makes influence harder to buy by avoiding elections, offering appointees generous compensation, and enforcing shorter term limits.
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The third problem is a lack of policy making competence.
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While career politicians juggle dozens of policy proposals on countless complicated issues, SILLs let their members become experts in a single topic.
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As you would expect, this radical proposal has critics.
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Political theorists Cristina LaFont and Nadia Urbinati argue that lottocracy asks most citizens to defer to a randomly chosen few.
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They believe that democracies should allow citizens to exercise political freedom as equals— and elections are central to that.
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Elections let people set the political agenda, and they bind officeholders to a continuing cycle of accountability, both at the polls and in the public eye.
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In their view, voting is how citizens collectively shape and limit public power, And without it, even the most competent lottocratic government could feel like rule by experts.
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Without elections, it can be hard to say what makes a system democratic.
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But this debate highlights a shared goal: we all want institutions that serve everyone and address real problems.
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And just like every other element of democracy, it’s up to us to keep experimenting until we find a system that achieves those ideals.

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  • “Rather than relying on...” - 이 표현은 대안적인 접근법을 설명할 때 유용하며, 특정 상황에 대한 반대의 의견을 제시할 수 있습니다.
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  • “Advocates of lottocracy believe it could…” - 주장을 제시할 때 쓰이는 구조로, 자신의 의견을 논리적으로 표현하게 해줍니다.
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이 비디오에서 주의해야 할 발음 요소들은 다음과 같습니다. “lottocracy”는 생소할 수 있으며, “lottery”와의 발음 차이에 주의해야 합니다. 또한 “democracy”의 'c' 발음이 모호하게 들릴 수 있으므로, 이를 명확히 발음하는 연습이 필요합니다. 이러한 단어들을 연습하며 영어 회화 연습을 통해 자연스러운 shadow speech 기술을 향상시킬 수 있습니다.

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