This period there was a monumental shift from a moralistic view of human relations as passions which were largely detested to a view that self-interest, read av

This period there was a monumental shift from a moralistic view of human relations as passions which were largely detested to a view that self-interest, read avarice, could be used to tame the other passions, the problem with the bees is the bees are not human with all the vices and wants that go with our being, so attempting to apply simplistic ideas like that to human governance you will undoubtedly lose resolution. Regarding a complex system of governance that is required for modern society, voting pre-dates the above shift in conception, but it's use was spurred on by the idea that our self-interest can be used to the keep more dangerous vices in check, the problem with this is that avarice is a vice and if you promote it throughout society as being the main force for taming of humanity, you will inevitably fall under it's wheels, this will probably be seen in rising inequality, where virtues, patience, kindness... are marginalised, for the benefit of this one vice. I'm sorry I don't have an answer, I do think we have gone a long way down a dead end, I can only hope we have not done exactly the same to pride.