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It seems like every few months a democratic idealist looks around and realizes that nobody chooses democracy as a decision making method when they have the choice, and goes about making tools to try to fix this peculiar fact.

The reason why nations use democracy as a decision-making method is 1) it has populist appeal and 2) they have a lot of resources to waste on bad decisions. The intelligence of a decision goes down with the number of people involved, until we arrive at the ideal of universal suffrage.

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That's why broad, not specific, goals would be decided by large groups. One broad goal might be to "end domestic NSA surveillance". Specific actions could be decided by teams of people in working groups which is similar to the way actionable decisions are made in many businesses.