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Instead of trying to tweak how we select the people that want to control every aspect of our lives, we simply reduce the power the state has to do so? The less power the machine has, the fewer incentives there are to get control of it, and the less damage is done when the wrong people do so.

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That's a solution to a different problem.

How do you effectively reduce the power of an organization with a monopoly on violence?

Because organizations don't have power, people do. And peoples individual power is always limited by making their actions depended on the consent of other people. And then those other people require consent of even more people and so on.

Because that's not what they (the machine, not any particular persons or parties) are using to do most of their ill. The weapons most often wielded against the citizens who get uppity aren't rifles and batons, but the media and financial institutions, and centralisation in general. Alternative decentralised and temporary systems built on math are the answer.

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