Oddbean new post about login | logout David Graeber on how to trigger Bitcoin Twitter during a bear market: "Then there's also libertarian socialism, which means the democratic control, not by the state, but by communities or by workers, self organizing in a voluntary fashion--that's genuine socialism in my opinion." https://x.com/chunkymark/status/1044264672504016897
Ah if only he were still around. I just started reading Pirate Enlightenment, which is fascinating. This line in particular, I think, is relevant here: "...there is a kind of mathematical glee to be found in reducing all human action to self-aggrandizing calculation. But these are ultimately tawdry pleasures."
It is incredible how this ideas are demonized and misrepresented. I repeated the same propaganda too until I accidentally discovered that some issues that bothered me for years, like the self-reinforcing rent seeking where already analyzed by Marx 150 years ago, long before it was so extremely obvious. It's a complete rabbithole on its own
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state
Super bizare if you know what these people really did.
Wouldn't a ride share protocol on Nostr be this? Controled by the users, using it voluntarily, and no corporate or govt (centralized) management control