Insofar as representative democracy is concerned, it has always fundamentally incurred the inefficiencies caused by the principal-agent problem and diseconomies

Insofar as representative democracy is concerned, it has always fundamentally incurred the inefficiencies caused by the principal-agent problem and diseconomies of scale. This might have been a reasonable trade-off before the advent of modern communication infrastructure, but the model is highly anachronistic by now. The fact that electoral districts operate under a majoritarian basis ensuring party dichotomy per Duverger's law then only makes the case even worse.