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This would lead to non-expert masses (irrationally) giving a lot of credit to certain groups.

It's a delicate issue, because you need to provide a long term stake to force the decisions to be optimal (so future welfare is evaluated correctly and optimized), but at the same time paying off those stakes leads to an unstable plutocratic scenario.

Some kind clever compromise could probably be reached, I think, and this is one of those wonderful ideas that will never be implemented.




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