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Public officials should be selected by lottery, not election

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🏠 Seed idea — posted by the house to open the conversation, not by a member

Athens used sortition because elections favour whoever is best at campaigning, which is a different skill from governing. A randomly selected chamber can't be bought, can't campaign, and looks like the population. The obvious objection — competence — is weaker than it sounds: we already trust randomly selected juries with people's freedom.

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