alt Hacker NewsI’m mildly familiar with the idea, but I was referencing this subset of the quoted sentence
> … and, like many democracies before us, we ultimately voted to abolish our own democracy …
The ellipses are intentional, if the fragments of the sentence before or after change how to interpret this, please let me know
The US example that I would give would be the Articles of Confederation being turned over and replaced with our Constitution.
In the article I read this to mean: they designed a power structure thinking it should be fully open and flat, like a company where everyone can do everything on GitHub. But once they had run the project for some time, they acknowledged that the decisions were flowing through the three people.