What can and cannot work on a small scale is generally an indication of how it would perform on a larger scale.
When trying to make a micro macro comparison, I tend to think of governance of nation states as very similar to governance of corporations.
When we think of the small scale that is governance of companies, we know intuitively that a company is best served by having sharp minded decision makers and having smooth talking sales people as a middle layer between company-wide strategy and the public... To put it another way, we intuit the following: A company where all decisions are decided by a diverse comitee of both the dumbest and the smartest would be a bit of a disaster.
The founding fathers of America's republic kind of knew all of this. They tried to put limits to voting in place that would serve to promote a sort of Proof-of-Stake in Democracy (land-owning family men vote, etc). Unpopular as the founders may be in the current attempted corporate neo-marxist zeitgeist, I do believe the founding fathers were on the right track to be limiting voting rights.
What can and cannot work on a small scale is generally an indication of how it would perform on a larger scale.
When trying to make a micro macro comparison, I tend to think of governance of nation states as very similar to governance of corporations.
When we think of the small scale that is governance of companies, we know intuitively that a company is best served by having sharp minded decision makers and having smooth talking sales people as a middle layer between company-wide strategy and the public... To put it another way, we intuit the following: A company where all decisions are decided by a diverse comitee of both the dumbest and the smartest would be a bit of a disaster.
The founding fathers of America's republic kind of knew all of this. They tried to put limits to voting in place that would serve to promote a sort of Proof-of-Stake in Democracy (land-owning family men vote, etc). Unpopular as the founders may be in the current attempted corporate neo-marxist zeitgeist, I do believe the founding fathers were on the right track to be limiting voting rights.