[pessimizer]

There's something to be said for representative democracy. I want to work in something like a cooperative, but I don't want to be constantly engaged in managing it. I'd rather assign my vote to someone who seems like they have their head on straight, and get a monthly email that tells me what's been going on lately.

Maybe like how pure hierarchical capitalists need a fairly large financial industry to handle the movement of wagers and prizes between investors and producers, a flatter system might need a big and active enough group of secretaries/reporters to keep everybody so informed about internal decision-making and events that normal members don't feel like they have to attend meetings.

It's really a privilege of power not to have to explain yourself. A flatter system might have to dedicate a standing portion of its efforts to explaining itself.