2342. Democracy wider considrerations

The word democracy was also developed by the Greeks. It comes from Demos, the people and – cracy rule. We think that democracy means periodic voting. The Greeks went further, taking literally the idea that the people rule. They had a lottery system for all citizens drawing lots for community jobs in administration for the next year. This had two main consequences for Gardenworld. First, it means that —ll citizens were educated enough to carry out the role the lottery assigned to them, and —second, that the jobs were simple enough that they could be understood.

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