I had heard that a majority of jobs are acquired through networking. Being open about your network seems healthier than hiding it. Especially if it’s a case of choosing one qualified candidate from a pool of qualified candidates and not hiring a bad fit just for nepotism’s sake, but even then seems better to tell people yourself and not let it be exclusively gossip behind your back.

It has repeated with often horrific results across many cultures. European with hunts, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Khmer Rouge (Cambodian genocide), etc. Seems to be a bug in the human source code.

The low-residue diet (to avoid poop stops) takes a lot of planning. I have zero desire to do that myself, but am kinda glad people I know who did that were open about what was involved. Seemed more like a public service announcement than a flex.

The campaigns get donations. Some donations are money, and other donations are time. Seems fine to me.

I disagree on the improvement being slight. Having incentive to campaign cooperatively because second choices count could dramatically change political culture. And Australia has used ranked choice for a century, without becoming any hotbed of subversion.

Further, RCV has a foothold in the US Alaska (pending surviving the latest repeal initiative on yesterday’s state ballots), Maine, and many cities. It’s much more realistic to spread it than to start from scratch with something else.