This might be slightly off topic, and I’m really all for democracy, but I do worry that the system is losing its competitive edge in the age of reputation. It’s

This might be slightly off topic, and I’m really all for democracy, but I do worry that the system is losing its competitive edge in the age of reputation. It’s just way too easy for an organized party to spread maliciously fake information and sow discord among the populace. We saw this at work with Russia’s Twitter accounts that claim to be from Texas, England, and other Western worlds, writing subtle hate tweets against refugees, Muslims, BREXIT proponents/opponents, etc. Thing is, it’s not just Russia that’s doing this. There is a German study that found social/political bots that root for Japan’s nationalist agenda [1]. South Korea has been having similar issues on their biggest websites. And I’m willing to bet there are organized parties within America that benefit from social division as well. A non-democratic society is probably better equipped to move forward amidst all the chaos (and in preventing chaos in the first place), whereas a democratic one may be much more likely to tear itself apart from inside out. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29182493 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29182493