Ok, but that pressure is brought to bear from somewhere. If there's people who are given the power to apply that pressure, then that power is now something peop

Ok, but that pressure is brought to bear from somewhere. If there's people who are given the power to apply that pressure, then that power is now something people can amass. I don't know how you're imagining that society can provide that pressure without also giving ambitous people a way to collect power.