I wonder what sort of organising structures you have thought about?

I like the idea of an epistocracy? . Epistocracies retain the same institutions as representative democracies, including imposing liberal constitutional limits on power, bills of rights, checks and balances, elected representatives and judicial review. But while democracies give every citizen an equal right to vote, epistocracies apportion political power, by law, according to knowledge or competence. From memory the ancient Greeks were governed via an epistocracy (although I believe they called it a democracy… until that term was muddied by modernity to include all persons regardless of knowledge or competence).

A ‘proof of work’ concept that entitles you to a vote only once you have done the work to earn that right. There would need to be equal opportunity to “do the work” whether that work be through demonstrated knowledge or competence. Equal opportunity, not equal outcome. My 10cents.

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They also practiced sortition which is akin to jury duty. Qualified citizens were randomly selected periodically as representatives making it hard for individuals to amass political power over time.

Interesting. Seems like some good starting points for a ‘new’ social organisation structure.

I particularly like the ‘qualified’ citizens part. I like the idea of demonstrated “proof of work”.