Accountability · proposed 2 months ago
Distributed accountability when power concentrates for efficiency
Some systems need scale to work. The task is not to forbid concentration, but to ensure that wherever power gathers for efficiency, the people it affects keep participation and the means to hold it to account.
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Scale and answerability are not opposites — a single grid can be efficient and still be governed by those it serves.
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Concentrated power tends to capture its own overseers. Accountability usually erodes faster than efficiency does.
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Cooperative utilities and mutual insurers ran at national scale for a century while remaining member-governed.
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Studies of regulatory capture show oversight bodies drift toward the interests of those they regulate over time.
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Rotate and sortition-select oversight seats, so no permanent class forms around the concentrated system.
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