But institutionalism will always be taken over by oligarchs. When the rules are set down impersonally, the oligarchs will have all the time in the world to tame them, to employ scyscrapers full of lawyers and lobbyists to tame the system to make it place specialized to enrich themselves with. Monarchy is superior to democracy, because the monarch is by the very nature of his position already at the apex, democracy just turns into an oligarch plunderfest.