Oddbean new post about login | logout Decentralism scales up using direct democracy controlled smart contracts to procure and secure community services for boring stuff like roads, rubbish, hospitals, water services etc. A community fund wallet with voting based execution of contracts etc. step one is to create one that works for any local club and let it grow out naturally from there
Democracy only works in a decentralized, local manner. At the federal level it always leads to corruption and totalitanism.
I don't think it even works at a local level.
Fuck voting for anything. Crowd funding some idea might be good, but "democracy" always ends up being stupid & evil.
So what's the alternative? Letting a king make all te decisions?
All organizations & "decision makers" should be voluntarily funded. You either support what people do with your own earnings or you don't. Voting implies that you can be forced to fund something you don't support. The world will be a better place when everyone realizes that all forms of forced funding are criminal.
So you're saying we shoudl privatize everything? (Not criticising, just trying to understand...) So we'd have a private military, and people would fund it if they felt it was worthwhile (for example)? Or with electric vehicles, no government rebates or funding to add infrastructure, just funded if people buy the cars?
Yes, our "defense" organizations would not cost trillions & be used to attack & overthrow countries & install dollar friendly disctatorships if not for forced funding. Voluntary funding would likely produce actual domestic defense & nothing more. Electric vehicles & "green energy" are actually horrible for the environment & would not be a problem without force funded subsidies.
Now I do agree with you...yet (playing devil's advocate for both or us) if we make defense spending a voluntary thing, then in times of peace the funding would likely be low, and then when you need the military (say you were attacked) you likely would be caught without sufficient funding...and no time to build up (even if you could quickly raise the funds). Not defending the military waste (at all) yet I see in this example something that would need proactive funding. Maybe there are other (better?) examples, but I do think there should be some limited central services... I do struggle with this though, as I think (almost exclusively) politicians are corrupt, and the tax system is being abused...but I'm not sure we can do away with it all completely....
I think the amount of people who like to collect guns & play war games, with basically all govt restrictions on weapons ownership removed, would probably serve as one of the greatest deterrants ever. Red necks are currently viewed as a serious threat to our govt despite being seriously crippled by regulations on what they are allowed to own & our govt basically being the most heavily armed govt in the history of the world. I think drone tech & open source Ai tools & cryptography are really only going to make the economics better for individuals & defense vs larger institutions & offensive measures in the long run.
Exactly this. You would not try to overthrow a country where its citizenry is heavily armed, because they will defend themselves. Meanwhile, the US military does not even exist for defense, it is a purely offensive force. And a disarmed citizenry with a centralized power center is a relatively easy target - you just have to take out or subvert the leadership.
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