Comment by d_k_f
7 hours ago
The state might be comprised of people, but unless everybody is directly involved in the final decision process you'll always have (at least) a principal-agent problem between the people acting as political representatives and everybody else.
As you do in most things in life.
Do you grow your own food? Do you refine your own oil? Do you write your own contracts?
I would assume you pick somebody to do those things for you because one human can't do literally everything.