Great essay Richard. As Lord Acton said, and he ought to know, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". As I suggested before, merely re-rigging the system for someone else is not necessarily the answer, see: https://medium.com/@daneke/slouching-toward-untopia-bf0a92f9d595 Power sharing is no panacea against abuse, it might just spread it around. Economists thought they could hide the abuse, by just taking power out differentials out of their equations. Maybe they stupidly though if they just ignored power, it might merely fade away. It never does, but it can be returned to economic thinking and contained. We should investigate the new archeological evidence on the Indus Valley (located in present day Afghanistan), where a civilization advanced and prospered without signs of hierarchy. Seemingly they knew something we don't. Like what power is for, if not shared prosperity?