You seem to assume the incentives are always correctly aligned, and agreed on concepts of "better" are immutable. They're not. No, I agree with you.

You seem to assume the incentives are always correctly aligned, and agreed on concepts of "better" are immutable. They're not. No, I agree with you. I'm not very confident futarchy would work out in practice. I can theorize about how you need to set up your metrics so your country doesn't get exploited by others, but getting the metrics right is very important and they're going to be constantly under attacks to separate them from what they're actually trying to measure.