What is the purpose of having a LL "House of Lords? The Senate is described by Michal in the video below as a Liberland “House of Lords.” He says “senator-ship is hereditary” and it is given to “those who have helped the country when it most needed.” Why would a senator-ship be handed down to a child? What has that child done for the country?
In the UK, it seems like the public is strongly against their un-elected and hereditary House of Lords. So I can’t find a rationale for re-creating this institution in Liberland. On its surface, it sounds like a backdoor for Liberlands founders to retain control and doesn’t seem to fit the motto of “free-est country on earth.”
I also commend Michal for his slideshow presentation on the “Liberland Citizenship Explained” video. This type of presentation makes it much easier for us gongoozlers to understand how things are unfolding in LL.
1 What is the benchmark how many merits does one need and is this a fixed bar or does it change over time?
2 How are merits to be inherited?
3 What happens when the merit capped is reached?
4 Can senators be in the cabinet, congress and or judiciary as well?
After thinking about this topic for the last day, I’m even more disappointed now. The current LL Senate system is setup either for the current LL govt members to retain control decades after they should be relevant or to sell forever control to the ultra-rich. I get that LL needs money to survive, but by selling forever control to the ultra-rich, the LL project does not survive. It will already have evaporated.
How many in the current LL govt are just “yes-men”? Do you all actually agree to give forever control of a govt body to either the founders or the ultra-rich? Is there any active debate amongst those in the LL govt? You guys certainly don’t appear willing to put any of that debate in public view; we ask basic questions here on the forum and just get ghosted. “I don’t know yet” is a perfectly fine response to many questions. “We are still working on that” is an ok response. Why are you guys so defensive about basic simple questions? Is LL just a drinking club, and those that don’t attend the parties aren’t welcome?
How about you guys send out a poll to all the people that get your emails? Ask them in the poll if they want wealthy people able to buy forever influence in LL govt? Ask them if they think it’s ok if a wealthy person can get 10000X the voting power that they have?
