[avivo]

There actually is a way to give devolve power away from both the government and private companies. Details here: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/towards-platform-de...

Essentially get a representative sample of the population, pay them and train them up (through neutral 3rd parties), and have the make the ultimate calls.

This isn't a crazy new idea; it's been done around the world for many complex and controversial issues. Here's a video from the Economist on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UcFQ-eDhTk and here's examples of uses of this approach around the world https://www.oecd.org/gov/innovative-citizen-participation-an...

[bombcar]

Great, just have the neutral 3rd parties do the decisions.

If you have those, you have everything! But "getting those" is the whole problem.

[kwatsonafter]

Just chiming in to say that I concur with your reply here; this article seems to be missing the fundamental point which is, "when/where do experts capable of avid citizenship come from?"

It's worth noting that this can be reduced to, "how can you make the public more well informed and capable of mediating and governing itself?"