One of the biggest issues is revocation, i.e. you can’t. Sure, you can always keep track of JWTs and refuse to accept ones that have been revoked, but congratulations, you’ve just invented session tokens (albeit more complicated).
> The problem I see is that the electorate doesn't work the way the founders imagine.
Ding ding ding! Precisely. We’ve been designing cities well for thousands of years. I mean, pre-automobile, it made zero sense to have 5, 10, 15, 20 miles between you and a merchant or a doctor or law enforcement.
This is a political problem. NIMBY property owners are increasingly the only ones able to vote in a given location, partially because they’re the only ones who can afford to live there. I mean, Jane Jacobs was writing in the ‘60s about how we’re ruining thousands of years of urban planning knowledge.