Yeah, that’s a very good question. For example, during the Uber consultation, we did not say, “Oh, let’s deliberate about the future of sharing economy.” That’s like tariff conversations because it’s so complicated, and it’s also very difficult to pin down to specific feelings because people are experts in their own feelings but only if there’s a very specific scenario. And so, we’re always deliberating just a sliver of the total topic in very concrete scenarios; that’s what’s required for it to work. And we’re very happy, actually, for people to set the agenda also, so people also have this online e-petition system where 5,000 people can tell us: Here is a specific scenario and I think you should deliberate that. For example, the young students, even before they turn 18, are very frequent users of that platform and they say, “We want to go to school one hour later because studies shows that one more hour sleep actually gets you a better grade,” and they eventually got that after this deliberation over Zoom.

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