[uoaei]

Consider firms which are wholly owned by either 1) every single employee (worker-owned firm), 2) every employee and every customer who opts in (consumer co-op), or 3) literally every citizen of a government (publicly owned).

You own it in partnership with the other people who own it.

This is, in the strictest definition, the socialism that people are so scared of.

[daenz]

How much control do you have over the military of your government? Or even the DMV? Are these organizations behaving directly as a response to the majority will of the people? If not, how do you solve that problem before you add more organizations?

[uoaei]

The best answer we have today, IMO, in terms of ethics of freedom and agency, is "representative democracy," which may be extended to "liquid democracy" to bridge the gap between small, direct-democracy-capable organizations and large, unwieldy ones.

Unfortunately, no solution will be perfect, but that doesn't mean some aren't better than others. The problem is in essence unsolvable. Politics and civilization is an exercise in minimizing harm rather than eliminating it, maximizing utility rather than spiking it.

[6510]

I don't know how but I do know it is much harder to make something everyone involved thinks impossible than to make something everyone thought they already had.

Perhaps the problem is as simple as setting up a forum with sub forums for every government official - then throw money at it until it works.