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? | Delegated UNI-weighted voting through forum comment, temperature check and on-chain vote with a timelock; initial quorum of 40 million UNI. | Unknown | Kings of small kingdoms (túatha) under over-kings; assemblies (óenach); customary law expounded by hereditary jurists rather than legislated. | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Forum debate and competing proposals; no appeal beyond token votes; legal disputes handled through the DUNA wrapper. | Unknown | Brehon judges; sureties (naidm, ráth, aitire); distraint of livestock; ritual fasting against higher-ranking defendants; body-fines and honour-price compensation.Arbitration | |
| How are public goods funded? | Grants by the Uniswap Foundation funded from the treasury; protocol fees now used to burn UNI rather than fund public goods. | Unknown | Rules on shared grazing, co-operative ploughing, mills and fencing; obligatory hospitality; churches and monasteries; few public works. | |
| How is AI used? | None in governance. | Unknown | None; a medieval legal order. | |
| What are the main risks? | Concentration of voting power in venture investors and large delegates, agenda control by Uniswap Labs, low turnout and regulatory exposure. | Unknown | Status-graded and unequal protection, unfree labour, endemic raiding and dynastic war, and vulnerability to a centralising conqueror.CLM-0385 |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.