Democracy is what reduces entropy

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Democracy (the vote) mediates the opinion of everyone to make a decision over one thing. Where a decentralized system would have led to more chaos. There is a tradeoff to be found between entropy reduction (ultimately authoritarian) and completely chaotic. I guess that's what designing representative systems and voting systems is about. Complexity is an issue for societies

Decentralizing decision too much leads to an unnecessary increase in entropy. In this sense "the market" (whatever this means, there is no such thing as "the market") cannot be an efficient solution. Asking everyone at a given point in time what they want and enforcing that choice is the best information transfer mechanism we can think of. This seems to be an argument in favor of more democracy, as in Switzerland.