@34a3cff1fb40 Big picture. Long term. Over the haul...

In the Army, you have a job you are getting paid for. Control is by a chain-of-command. I was in the army. It very definitely has an "elitism"... that is to say, "someone has definite control you absolutely CAN NOT presume to usurp."

"Healthy Democracies"... same. Someone is in charge to keep it going and keep those not-in-charge in-line.

"At work" it is the same governance... Someone that ain't me sets policy, and I have to abide by that or find another job.

In the cases you refer to, "Military, healthy democracies, a job" you have governance by a group set-aside for that specific purpose, and "mob rule" doesn't enter into it or the thing does not function... AT ALL.

And so it is with UFoI... you have those setting policy to which instance owners can agree or leave. UFoI governance can hopefully have processes to manage the human behavior among themselves, but "people acting like people" is the critical problem.