Not mutually exclusive, no, but one distracts from the other. This particular area of interest for Hanson (futarchy) reads to me like coming up with a meme solution for a problem that doesn't exist to avoid structural issues that do exist. It's like the E/A psyop where they get nerds to think black box expected value on issues they won't really engage with or ever change.

His proposal seems to give people "voice" (as in the theory of "voice and exit") but really it's just the corrupt democracy we have with extra steps. It's meme-tier. And how it could be implemented incrementally from the current messed up system, never mind that.

These things are all memes to distract people from how they're being robbed.