Future of Democracy: Solving the Political Prisoner's Dilemma
Einstein once said: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Someone that understands this is John Bunzl, a businessman and a political activist from the UK. He’s the founder of Simpol, the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation, a new political innovation to overcome the obstacles that are today refraining governments to cooperate with each other. By applying game theory from business school, he explains the concept "The Political Prisoner's Dilemma" to visualise why governments are held back on taking true action to solve global problems. Simpol is a solution to overcome this obstacle that keeps governments from true cooperation and is designed in such an ingenious way so that all countries can keep their competitiveness and only gain benefits from supporting it. Episode learnings: - What is Simpol - Why governments refrain from cooperating - What needs to be done to overcome the obstacles that keep us from global cooperation - How you can design a system to solve global matters - How evolutionary biology has solved big problems for humanity in the past - and what we can learn from it - How the future of global votes can change democracy __________________ To support the cause, go to Simpol.org and make your global vote count. Want to learn more about the research behind it, evolutionary biology and how to design a global vote system? Listen to the ebook - it is a highly recommended read. The political initiative Simpol is today supported by over 100 Members of the Parliament in the UK, and growing internationally as well. It is supported by many eminent professionals and researchers across the globe, such as José Ramos-Horta, previous Noble Peace Prize Laureat.