RE: Corruption is the Worst Threat Humanity, and America Specifically, Faces Today
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This would have the legislative branch moved to the power players (those delegated by people). If they have enough votes then they need not have transparency, but it just might be the case where enough people do not delegate.
The executive also is redefined as the contractors you mention, hired by the judicial branch, not elected by the people. All this seems to just move the corruption magnet to that branch, like we see in South America lately. Bringing up competing branches to check each other was the solution in the US Consitution, with further checks in the state governments which have their own branches similarly checking each other. It is a strategic feat to corrupt so many competing branches like we have seen here.
The overarching check is supposed to be human decency, mostly backed by God-fearing people who are elected in fair elections by a populace that can hear uncensored political speech. So, the culture is important, as is dependable elections. Good culture being too difficult to define, perhaps an amendment can be agreed upon by enough states that can direct elections away from methods that are easily tampered with.
That's not how it works on Hive, and not at all what I intended to communicate. On Hive, which is the legislative model I am proposing, we, the People, each and all decide whether to upvote someone, or a proposal, and that upvote is the funds we delegate - the taxes we pay to fund the project - to pave a road, or pay some AI to collect all our emails and read them. No judicial branch applies to that function.
The purpose and activities of the judiciary I did not mention changing. We do need courts. I don't state we need judges, but we do need courts and juries can rule on law and matters brought to courts for judgement. I neither believe we need the Bar association, which is a form of government itself, although legal representatives are indeed necessary, because law can be a complex matter (even if we discard non-common law and return to principles that juries can adjudicate based on common law, which can be known and understood by normal people).
However, even dialing that back, courts are notoriously corrupt. To my knowledge, this corruption is primarily through judges and bar attorneys, which I have just mentioned being rid of, but juries have also been known to be corrupted, intimidated, and tampered with. Nothing is perfect.
We don't, and probably cannot have, dependable elections. I have seen video of election watchers expelled from vote counting rooms, boxes of ballots that were concealed while election watchers were present and brought out after they were expelled, and then they turned out to have only Biden votes in them, and Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election. Since that fraudulent election, numerous court challenges have been brought against it, but the courts are as corrupt as the state governments that counted the fake ballots, so elections as we presently conduct them are not dependable.
Hive isn't a replacement for that, because I know of Hive users that have in excess of 10k accounts, so they can vote early and vote often. It's just as corruptable as political elections, and worse, all the votes are stake weighted, so the more money you have on Hive the more your vote(s) count. @ned proposed 1a1v before he gave up on Hive, took the money for the Founder's stake, and ran, but he never revealed a functional mechanism the restrict voting to actual individual human beings.
I do not wish to delegate my vote. I do not accede to being represented. Forcing me to allow someone else to represent me is a form of slavery, and I do not consent. The legislative system of representation is obsolete, and Hive proves we do not need it anymore. Neither do I need government agencies - particularly when every government agency we can name is proved to have been corrupted and to represent the interests of the corporations they are supposed to be regulating. Every service provided by a government agency can be provided under contract by a private company, and I can choose to pay for such service voluntarily if I want that service. If I don't want it forcing me to pay for it is, again, slavery, and I do not consent.
But I see no means of replacing courts with private contractors. Being rid of judges and the Bar enables juries to rule on cases brought to court, criminal and civil, and while juries aren't perfectly corruption proof, they are a hell of lot more resistant to corruption than judges and bar attorneys, and I will have to settle for that until someone proposes something better.