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amai on July 15, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Random selection is necessary to create stable mer...

"It is considered democratic, for example, that state offices are filled by lot, and oligarchic that they are filled by election"

— Aristotle, Politics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

amai on July 15, 2025 [–]

I can also recommend the book "Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David Van Reybrouck"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/18/against-electi...

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