How each model solves the same problems
Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
| Question | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How are decisions made? | Every member a vote 'in Affairs of Moment'; captains and quartermasters elected and deposable; articles sworn by all members.Recall election | Kings of small kingdoms (túatha) under over-kings; assemblies (óenach); customary law expounded by hereditary jurists rather than legislated. | Unknown | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Quartermaster discipline for small offences; juries for disputes over the articles; quarrels settled ashore by regulated duel. | Brehon judges; sureties (naidm, ráth, aitire); distraint of livestock; ritual fasting against higher-ranking defendants; body-fines and honour-price compensation.Arbitration | Unknown | |
| How are public goods funded? | Common fund paying fixed compensation for injuries; fixed shares of plunder agreed in advance. | Rules on shared grazing, co-operative ploughing, mills and fencing; obligatory hospitality; churches and monasteries; few public works. | Unknown | |
| How is AI used? | None; an eighteenth-century practice. | None; a medieval legal order. | Unknown | |
| What are the main risks? | Dependence on violent predation, brutal punishments, exclusion of some groups, forced recruitment, and state suppression.CLM-0395 | Status-graded and unequal protection, unfree labour, endemic raiding and dynastic war, and vulnerability to a centralising conqueror.CLM-0385 | Unknown |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.