Thanks for your answer! I would certainly rather live in a direct democracy than in liberal democracy, and what they did to Libya is really a shame. Switzerland is another example where its clearly better than in the surrounding countries.
However, I think these countries are just the cleanest shirts in the laundry basket. The economic system decides whether a political system will work, because thats where the incentives come from. That's why my main focus is there.
Direct democracy still goes against incentives (collective ownership mutes price systems) and is still fundamentally immoral (coercive). Because the incentives aren't alligned, it will be corrupted over time and I would say that's exactly what we see in Switzerland.
-They went off the gold standard later, but they went off.
-They adopted clownworld authoritarianism later, but eventually they did
-They even gave up their neutrality in the Ukraine war, after being neutral forever.
I think as long as you have political hierarchy of power, which every statist political system has, psychopats will be incentivised to climb to the top.
In the absence of systemic coercion (anarcho-capitalism) the only way to the top of the hierarchy is excelence. The incentives are opposite of statism, it brings the best people to the top.
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