Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

Massive thanks to Prof. Eric Maskin for helping with the script. Thanks to Chris Dong for inspiring this video. Massive thanks to Latif Nasser for being part of this video. Massive thanks to Curtis Gilberts, and to Radiolab -- listen to their great episode on voting systems here A few great proofs...

24 min - World Affairs & Investigations - Veritasium

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