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Yes, I agree that it's hard. It's hard to displace dictators in general. It still must be done. And we should learn from this as a society and tweak the rules to make it harder for anyone to become a dictator in the future.



We could apply distributed systems decision theory into general sociology, it might work.


Wow, I didn't expect this reply. I had the exact same thought after I read this HN thread [1] from 3 weeks ago about coordination-free distributed consistency [2]. Is this what you had in mind?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19316737

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distri...




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