I think a big problem we face in humanity is how we settle our disputes and it’s a large function of a government. But, after enough time people figure out the “rules” and get their own refs or figure out loopholes.
Fight to the death? Well not my death, i have a guy to fight for me.
Courtrooms? Got my friend to be the judge.
Arbitration? I have the money and you have the issue so let me hire a guy to hear you out and ignore it.
It seems that we need to change how we solve disputes like every 120 years before it gets overwhelming and the old system stops working entirely.
None of us are particularly talented at ruling, and when given power we tend to impose it on others.
Limit personal wealth/power, make it difficult to entrenched, and make it easy for society to strip it from those who want to hoard it.
That’s how you get “general secretaries” and “chairmen of military commission” who are totally not Supreme Leaders.
Any attempt to “limit” power by declaring that there are no rulers and everyone is “just a comrade” only leads to obfuscation of power and complete shift to backroom politics.
There are people who like being told what to do and there those who enjoy giving orders (and “apolitical” people who “just want to live their lives” are actually part of the first group). Hierarchical systems will form one way or another, whether codified or not.
President, king, politburo, commission, magnets, general secretary, whatever.
Forget naming conventions, and limit the scope of power. When someone gets delusions of grandeur and tries to consolidate more power, remove them.