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I don't know about you, but I am sick of this election.

Hey, podcast listeners, it's Anne here, and I'm tired of the candidates and the ads and the arguing.

And frankly, the fact that at the end of this whole process, I'm going to be left to make a choice between two people,

neither of whom I'm all that crazy about.

And the only thing I'm going to get to do is vote yes or no.

That just seems stupid.

This is the 21st century.

Shouldn't there be a better way to make a collective decision about the nation's future?

Because the way we do elections right now, it's like every four years.

We ask everyone into the country to go into a voting booth and decide what we all get to eat for four years.

Burgers or kale smoothies.

The problem with voting is when I go to say to a restaurant and I pick a meal off the menu, I'm basically only deciding for myself.

And if I make a bad choice, I harm myself.

If I make a good choice, I help myself.

But when it comes to voting, though, we're deciding for everybody.

We're deciding for felons, for immigrants, for non-residents, even people in the other countries that are affected by our decisions, for our children.

And the decisions are often very high stakes.

We're deciding matters of peace and war, prosperity and poverty.

We're picking matters of justice and war, prosperity and poverty. We're picking matters of

justice. This is Jason Brennan. He's a philosopher at Georgetown University. And what bugs him

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