[AnthonyMouse]

Rule by consensus is basically democracy by whoever is motivated enough to show up. It seems to have an extremely good track record, especially compared with rule by central bureaucracy.

The exception is if the consensus is only among a small handful of large corporations that lack competition and then become the unaccountable technocrats. But in that case what you want from governments is not to take over as the malevolent bureaucracy, it's antitrust enforcement.