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"I propose the shape of the pyramid, which is well known in traditional political thought. The pyramid is indeed a particularly fitting image for a governmental structure whose source of authority lies outside itself, but whose seat of power is located at the top, from which authority and power is filtered down to the base in such a way that each success possesses some authority, but less than the one above it, and where, precisely because of this careful filtering process, all layers from top to bottom are not only firmly integrated into the whole but are interrelated like converging rays whose common focal point is the top of the pyramid as well as the transcending source of authority above it"

-Hannah Arendt

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I think that path that needs to be followed is to have ambitious and committed students. What happened with Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys.

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The Chicago Boys (c. 1970s) were a group of young Chilean economists, most of whom trained at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at the Catholic University of Chile. The training was the result of a "Chile Project" organised in the 1950s by the US State Department and funded by the Ford Foundation, which aimed at influencing Chilean economic thinking. The project was uneventful until the early 1970s. The Chicago Boys' ideas remaining on the fringes of Chilean economic and political thought, even after a 500-page plan based on the Chicago School's ideas called El ladrillo ("the brick") was presented as part of Jorge Alessandri's call for alternative economic platforms for his 1970 presidential campaign. Alessandri rejected El ladrillo, but it was revisited after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état on 11 September 1973 brought Augusto Pinochet to power, and became the basis of the new regime's economic policy. Eight of the ten principal authors of "The Brick" were Chicago Boys.

Failing with foreign students who are able to go back and implement policy.

Try to get adoption at a special economic zone.http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Establishing a seastead operated with these principleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Failing any small scale real world adoption try to create a virtual community / virtual world that uses Futarchy as a basis.

This order can also be reversed. Try to do the virtual world tests - have a conventional virtual world tested with the same participants.

With proven superior results and fine tuning move up to seasteading or special zones. Then try to get national or regional adoption.

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