Random selection, not elections, prevents the hierarchies elections breed.

Evidence

An elected County Association would replace the tyranny of land ownership with the tyranny of electoral systems, which have an inherent propensity to beget powerful hierarchies. Knowing this, ancient Athenian democrats opposed elections and replaced them with lotteries – the idea in which the Western jury system has its roots. If anything can recreate a land commons in a technologically advanced society, your County Association, comprised of randomly selected locals, is surely it. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 747

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the historical evidence behind ‘elections inherently beget powerful hierarchies’ and why sortition was preferred by Athenian democrats.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 747
• XREF: connects to: Circuits now use randomization to block chief judges from stacking panels — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 296