[the_only_law]

> Sadly - if you are organizing humans, at non-trivial scales, over time - the alternatives all have profound problems.

How come our societies haven’t reverted to a feudal structure then. I’m sure most countries are organizing people at a much larger scale than most businesses

[WalterBright]

I suspect it's because democracy is one local maxima and feudalism is another local maxima. There's no good path from one to the other.

[pjmlp]

Only a few countries around the world have proper democracies at all levels, same applies to most companies.

Boss says jump, employee asks how high.