An idea from a friend I can't get out of my head: "No country in the world lets tourists vote."

The longer term your commitment to some emergent collective, the more say you should have on the direction of it.

It feels like so much of the problems of the late stage environment we live in is giving shareholders–who could have just acquired the stock yesterday and sell it tomorrow–so much say over what companies do.

That rampant short-termism that comes from the relentless reduction of friction is the animating force behind the malaise of modernity.