> Who's competent to decide who's competent to rule? (Does that sound like a vicious circle?)

A bit, but that doesn't make it any less important a question.


> An alternative to attempting to be ruled by competent people is to ensure that noone's
> incompetence can make too much damage, i.e. replace the rulers often.

However, this system works against competent rulers achieving anything of lasting significance.
We have this problem even with the system we have: politicians in general are unwilling to get to work on problems that require long-term solutions, because they'll be around to cop the flak from the initial confusion but not to get the credit from the final result.


Paul