@Richard Corin how is that working out for everyone?

@Richard Corin the problem with the democratic state is in the "state" part. States centralize power and can easily be captured. Cooperatives are like states except that they don't use force through a centralized power to impose their will. That makes cooperatives naturally more democratic than states. As for the problems we see with democracy today, all of those are due to the nature of our existing social structures, and they can only be resolved by designing better social structures. Structures that are cooperative in nature, rather than competitive. It is competition that ultimately gives rise to all these problems.

That's a lot like my own work! The main differences are that I include government under "social" and I label human as "individual". That's about it!

The hardest problem I see is in the maintenance of the built environment. We want to maximize recycling and restoration in order for the system to work long term. But there is a limit to how much we can recycle and how fast we can restore. Even if we replace our current system with a resilient ecological one, we will still struggle with these constraints.