Security has a concept called attack surface: the more kinds of exposures, the greater the attack surface. Similarly we can think of governance as having an argument surface: the more kinds of decisions there are to argue over, the less functional the institution will be.
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Q: Didnt sparta somehow use argument surface to their advantage by pitting 50% against the other 50% so that nothing could feasibly change and preventing things getting worse as government is want to do?
Sounds like bikeshedding. Outsource the dumb and pointless arguments to reduce the argument surface of the actual decisionmakers.
