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Nope. Those are both terrible examples of what can go wrong. I provided some examples of it not going wrong.

So the question is, do we throw out the entire notion of concentrating power in one person or small group of people, because they might abuse it? Or is it possible to devise a system that retains the advantages and minimises disadvantages? Because we know the consequences of giving that power to several hundreds of people - deadlock.




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