Idea to take BTS to the stars by creating direct a democracy on top of BTS with 1 'government delegate'
1. Vote in 100% pay delegate who creates a UIA and uses the VOTE features not yet implemented to allow 1 person 1 vote. Each token of the UIA is a voting token with the power to vote on what the delegate's pay is spent on. This could be locked in via smart contract or if there's no contracts then a pledge (btw how can people be prevented from making contracts within BitShares?)
2. Create physical passport-like document with a QR code that contains the voting token.
3. Post the passports in physical mail to 5000 people. Target geographically so their money can be spent on something useful to them, e.g. target one big city. They recieve a passport in the mail welcoming them to a new digital government where they can vote and make proposals to decide where the money is spent themselves. A new government is born.
Citizens' of that government are guaranteed the budget of their delegate, providing their delegate is not voted out by stakehodlers, who would choose not to due to financial incentive (in theory). Citizens of that government get whatever benefits they have voted for themselves to have.
But doesn't this suck money out of BTS?
In theory, no, it brings money in, because all these new voters are now BTS users and can be contacted and informed that they can increase the budget of their government by using bitUSD. Then they start using bitUSD to increase their personal power by making the government they are a part of more powerful. They are basically taxed by using bitUSD which comes with extra risk over USD.
BTS should then increases due to new group of users buying bitUSD to increase their government budget and people are empowered with real voting power at the same time.
Massive press storm about a new 'startup government' with a real budget.
Costs per passport could be cut by doing it digitally to reach more people but it may or may not be more effective as people would have to then vote for benefits that are only transferable online rather than local real world benefits. Or a press release could go out calling for people to sign up to a new government rather than sending out any passport, there are different ways to do it. Or passports could just be sent to targeted individuals such as journalists on hpenvy's list after contacting them about the idea in advance.
Downside is it does cost a delegate spot who, if ever voted out, could create backlash. But word about this digital paradise could spread and create a worldwide phenomenon. The UIA should have enough voting tokens created to give each person 1. All this huge potential gain for just 1 delegate spot sounds like a good deal. A government delegate. If done digitally rather than with physical passports it would be the first world government. That's the kind of thing that gets mainstream press attention the world over. It would make marketing so easy. Everyone would be interested to learn about it.
This is at least an explosively powerful marketing strategy, among other things. Thoughts on this idea?