"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Very cool.

Hopefully they have significant range of motion. I can lift 1000 times my weight with a lever, but the amount of leverage required means I lift it very slowly.

Power is a tradeoff, either high force low speed or high speed low force for the same amount.