It's called the market George, the market

George Monbiot has a solution to the lack of democracy he perceives in the current political set up:

Society is a complex system, and complex systems can never be sensibly and benevolently controlled from the centre. A centralised, hierarchical system means concentrated power, and concentrated power favours concentrated wealth. Systems like ours are easy for billionaires and their media empires to co-opt.

The human urge to take back control, loudly promised by governments that have done the opposite, is real. To a far greater extent than has been permitted in our recorded history, we should be allowed to manage our own lives.

All of this is entirely true, of course it is. But he then goes on to suggest that the complex system should be controlled by politics - just local politics. The actual answer is that the system shouldn’t be controlled by anyone as no one is able to control it. That is, leave as much as is possible to markets, using politics and governance to do only those things which absolutely must be done through that process.

Unlike classical anarchists, Bookchin proposed a structured political system, built on majority voting. It begins with popular assemblies, convened in opposition to the state, open to anyone from the neighbourhood who wants to join. As more assemblies form, they create confederations whose powers are not devolved downwards but delegated upwards. The assemblies send delegates to represent them at confederal councils, but these people have no powers of their own: they may only convey, coordinate and administer the decisions handed up to them. They can be recalled by their assemblies at any time. Eventually, in his vision, these confederations dislodge the states with which they compete.

No, really, just leave people be to do as they wish. Their interactions then become the system itself.

For, given that we’ve all accepted the predicate, that complex systems cannot be controlled from the centre, why are we then arguing about how that centre should be constituted which cannot, by definition, manage that complex system?

The answer is, instead of complaining about the selection method of the managers, to simply stop the management.