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I would like to see a combination of:

* Objective civil service exam which establishes competency in the position the person is applying for

* Once a person demonstrates basic competency, they can be entered into a pool and the final candidate chosen using sortition : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

* The selected person can only serve in that position once

* The person will be well compensated above average



Sortition seems to be a good idea, however it still puzzles me how the Athenians managed to sentence poor Socrates to death (with all their clever notions) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato)

Also i wonder there were any other trials in Athens similar to the trial of Socrates.




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