Comment on Humanity has to change how we solve disputes every so often to avoid people gaming it
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 1 week ago
None of us are particularly talented at ruling, and when given power we tend to impose it on others.
Limit personal wealth/power, make it difficult to entrenched, and make it easy for society to strip it from those who want to hoard it.
deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
That’s how you get “general secretaries” and “chairmen of military commission” who are totally not Supreme Leaders.
Any attempt to “limit” power by declaring that there are no rulers and everyone is “just a comrade” only leads to obfuscation of power and complete shift to backroom politics.
There are people who like being told what to do and there those who enjoy giving orders (and “apolitical” people who “just want to live their lives” are actually part of the first group). Hierarchical systems will form one way or another, whether codified or not.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 1 week ago
President, king, politburo, commission, magnets, general secretary, whatever.
Forget naming conventions, and limit the scope of power. When someone gets delusions of grandeur and tries to consolidate more power, remove them.