Meetings, voting, arguments over stuff that shouldn't be a zero-sum game in the first place... sure. LOTS of free time. [/sarcasm]

Markets decentralize all of that mess. Prices are an open information network when not muddled by political intervention, and still manage to work despite that intervention. Vote with your wallet. Make and accept offers. It's superior to direct democracy in every way.

But if you think I am wrong, you chould be free to compete and prove it. Neither of us are free because of the political system. How do we dethrone the warmongers and control freaks without installing a new one? That is the real challenge we face. And voting hasn't worked for over 200 years.