With respect to new technology, functionality is the limit beyond which mass utilization cannot precede. We must safeguard the sale of machine-made consumer items; the machine made Seiki, TImex, Rolex, diamond rings and other luxury goods.

There is a new principle emerging called functionality; a functionality principle. It is important to HS(Human Survival) econommics. Marx alluded to this in his review of life for candle stick makers during the industrial revolution. Well, it's not really new.  But, maybe it needs to be utilized more often. A glass surfaced phone that has no functionality when the temperature falls below 0 degrees  is not functional. Food that does not satiate the appetite nor the pleasure of eating is not functional.  A digital voting system that is manipulable but that ensures a reasonable figure head with lots of checks and balances on his influence is not soo useful.  Hand-written ballots that cannot be manipulated may ensure the integrity of the system albeit with the same checks and balances on power. This is because right now, the current system allows  a whim and a fancy to be elected by a small minority if they so choose.   They would just tweet their choice to the big golden machine and the choices and directions along the way are given a sense of drama and debate with the assistance of human servants. It's okay so long as everyone can get a job with reasonable effort since you need people to buy the new gadgets and take nice trips to 70% empty hotels in pretty exotic places. Also, there should be sufficient diversity in every profession that resembles the average racial diversity in the top publicly funded high school in the most populace city; the one with the tallest skyscrapers and the smelliest reputation for insufficient parks and big attitudes. This is because we look to that city, where ever it is, as some symbol of freedom or independence but it is really a city of respected and managed diversity, ease of transportation and a belief in a fairness that approximates the intellectual, well-proportioned, beautiful and shapely evidence of human equality.  Read Hosea 2.   But, such a new voting (current or otherwise) system, if it were to exist, would not be very functional except that anything digital is manipulable maybe and the only people paying attention to the news are those hoping for an American World Cup trophy or a Russia vs. U.S. world cup soccer final.  They already have the Stanley Cup and a few Wimbledon titles.


  

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power-Alexander Hamilton.