Network States

Time-locking power

By default, for all of history, we have "time-locked" power with politicians. 

Whether it be a king, emperor, dictator, president, senator, or minister.

Civilizations tend to see lower corruption and pettiness when those time locks go down in duration.

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How far in this direction of making power ephemeral can we go? 

The most ephemeral type of power I can think of comes from a transitive delegation system, where people get more votes based on the number of people who delegate to them, combine with their delegate's delegates, etc.

In this system one could gain and lose votes with every single decision.

To me, this seems like the best default.

Time locked power -- where someone has special influence over others for a time regardless of in the moment popularity -- probably has great uses during turmoil.

But it should not be a governance default