In my younger days I thought direct democracy was unworkable, but now I realise that might have just been my brain conforming to the bourgeois representative government status quo.
Obviously we easily have the tech to do DD these days, everyone has a smart phone in their pocket, we could do it instantly and on the go. But how you could manage a planned economy that way I’m not sure.
I kind of like an upper house/lower house system where one of them is just regular people voting on shit.
Direct democracy within the world today very often results in short term oriented decisions that hurt the country over the long term. You need people who are going to say no to shit like tax cuts.