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Re:The World Is Run by People No Smarter Than You by readthenotes1 on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:19PM (#33566257)
With modern democracies, we have people gaining power who are the most willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it.

In Athens, they selected by random lot. A much better system.

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Re:The World Is Run by People No Smarter Than You by tablespoon on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:36PM (#33566451)
> In Athens, they selected by random lot. A much better system.

IIRC, an important corollary to that was they designed their official positions so literally anyone could do the job.

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