I agree, and worded myself carefully to avoid going into that too much:
and relatively weak in organizations close to the democracy end of the spectrum.
IE, relative to dictatorships.
In the big picture, democracies are way, way better than dictatorships. This doesn’t stop democracies from being pretty crappy in a lot of easily identifiable ways.
A problem we currently have is that we don’t have a very good picture, at present, of what we could aspire to that’s better than democracies.
Futarchy is a start, but it’s rather untested, and there are some plausible problems with it.
I agree, and worded myself carefully to avoid going into that too much:
IE, relative to dictatorships.
In the big picture, democracies are way, way better than dictatorships. This doesn’t stop democracies from being pretty crappy in a lot of easily identifiable ways.
A problem we currently have is that we don’t have a very good picture, at present, of what we could aspire to that’s better than democracies.
Futarchy is a start, but it’s rather untested, and there are some plausible problems with it.