In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion franaise, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated histo… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You can change the mind of someone who says "no"; never the minds of those who say nothing.

members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has been investigated with modern political systems. In a computer simulation, Alessandro Pluchino and his colleagues showed how adding a certain number of randomly selected politicians to the process can improve the functioning of the parliamentary system.

The only way you can "convince" rentseekers [bankers/academicobureaucrats] is showing them that it is in their own INTERESTS to change their mind. When against their interests, make it painful for them by 1) convincing OTHERS, 2) continuously exposing, 3) humiliating them