[pantalaimon]

> That doesn't mean it will continue being a good solution as technology and society change.

Yea neo-feudalism seems to be all the rage these days.

Democracy is not a given, people with power want more power and less checks - historically that’s what things converged to typically.

[ben_w]

Not sure about what's really "typical", nor which name would best describe what direction the USA (let alone anyone else) is even heading in.

The ancient Greeks had ideas about the κύκλος (cycles) of government: Plato's cycle went [aristocracy > timocracy oligarchy > democracy > tyranny]; Polybius' cycle was [ochlocracy -> monarchy -> tyranny -> aristocracy -> oligarchy -> democracy -> ochlocracy] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory