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> Decentralized governance Do you mean voting? Has been around since ancient Greece.
by lottin 5y ago
> Decentralized governance
Do you mean voting? Has been around since ancient Greece.
- dash2 5y agoI do not. Direct democracy, as practiced by Athens, would be a better example. Worked OK for Athens for a while. Athens had probably 30,000 citizens. No modern state has tried replacing representative democracy with direct democracy, for reasons nicely explained by Benjamin Constant (https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/constant-the-liberty-of-ancients-compared-with-that-of-moderns-1819 https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/constant-the-liberty-of-a...).