Ya. No mandatory arbitration.

The key tonthe article isnt that it got through, ita that the thing that got through is cheap and mass producable. The modern drone battlefield has changed the landscape of war.

I dont understand your point. Slavery can be bad while a lottery based democracy can be good. There not related other than having the ability to exist at the same time? Slavery also existed in many voting based representative democracies like the Roman empire and American deomocratic republic.

Greek democracy was chosen at random through a lottery. It was extremely successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzbJacGGt1o&t=1270s