The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

I don't believe intelligent people are capable of managing other people's lives. I also don't believe unintelligent people are capable of managing other people's lives. This is why I don't believe democracy is a solution to the problems of elitism.

Is there a better solution?

I'm sure there is but we don't know what it is yet. Markets almost certainly play a role. I honestly think it won't matter as soon as all consciousness is synthetic, because then we can implement second-chance systems like artificial reincarnation.

From there experimentation can be more ethically undertaken even up to formerly unthinkable extremes.

What exactly do you formulate *as* the problem of elitism? Why is elitism *bad* to you?

Generically, all command systems suffer from problems of lack of proximity and exposure to relevant information and other imperfections. Elitism in particular is mostly objectionable only because I have very specific tastes in what I would consider elite.

It seems like you don't have a problem with elitism *per se*, but that the wrong elites are coordinating the system.

Any elite that wants to "coordinate a system" is the wrong elite. Any elite given the power to "coordinate a system" quickly becomes the wrong elite. I'm sure there are faustian triumphs of reason hidden on the road to otherwise certain hell, but it's still bad to gamble.