RE: I could be in jail in 60 minutes. I've been using myself as "stingbait" for 8 years, gathering evidence of corruption at Court. On Friday, I got what I needed, but at the cost of exposing myself to being jailed on contempt.
'Perfect theoretical capitalism' lifts people out of poverty, but doesnt solve the issue of who cleans the toilets.
If the bottom is raised so that we are all millionaires, it will be millionaires cleaning the toilets of the trillionaires.
Nor does it solve the havenots being slaves of the haves.
Ancom theory says if you want a toilet cleaned you are going to have to do it yourself or it might not get done.
Everybody has, as far as the basics, and we are only enslaved by life's necessity.
Ie, somebody has to do the work if we want work done.
Crypto may make this largely accademic provided the haves dont press their advantage over the have nots, but the majority are crapitalust and see this as their chance to be the ruling uberlords.
There is a chance for ancoms to get heard in the din, we will have to grab our chance, or miss it.
If you are not willing to be wrong, then you will not alter the course of history. I have a vision and a plan. I know that there have to be flaws in both my vision and my plan. But if people join with me for community action toward the vision that I can articulate, I know that something good will happen, that we will get to a place that is better than were we are headed if we DON'T act. The vision and the plan just serves to enable us to act coherently.
The important thing is that we act. You might envision anarchy communism, a vision that differs from mine. But if we both want to empower people to be able to determine their own lives and destinies, then we can work together on the aspects of our respective plans that promote individual empowerment.
As we make progress in empowering everyday people, we can sort out the difference in our visions and adjust our level of cooperation (or competition).
Mostly i look to end rule by force, then we can all do as we please.
In the sci-fi story, what keeps farmer #2 from walking up to farmer #1 with a gun, killing him, and taking farmer #1's wife and tractor?
For a less violent scenario, what recourse does farmer #1 have if the tractor doesn't work as promised?
Gonna have to get to know your neighbors.
If somebody sells you a bum tractor nobody else will buy from him, and without cops and judges he will be lucky not to hang.
Folks didnt have any problems settling the frontiers, the wild west was survived.
Gonna have to man up and solve your problems how you do it.
We, like automobile engines, are designed to operate under load. The frontier life that you romanticize placed a heavy load on those settlers, as well as on the native populations that they competed with and destroyed.
Tyranny is coming, and indeed is already upon us, since we have lost the character and integrity and community spirit that you speak of. We can, perhaps, resuscitate our humanity, but we cannot return to the frontier, for what works with one person per square mile does not work when there are a 10,000 people per square mile, when a lone disgruntled individual can go to a supermarket and purchase all of the ingredients needed to construct a lethal chemical weapon, and with only slightly more difficulty, can obtain all of the components needed to construct a bomb.
Yep, tolerating rule by force will be our downfall.
My contrary opinion is that the path to empowerment is not to eliminate force, which is impossible, but instead to distribute it widely by destroying all concentrations of power, thus empowering individuals generally.
IOW, anarchy is not a stable equilibrium. True "government by the people" should be our goal, our vision. There are two kinds of power, the power to control your own life, and the power to control the lives of others. Conversations about anarchy are basically masturbation. Time so spent is wasted. In California, people are, on paper, totally empowered; the Constitution of the State of California is a stunningly beautiful expression of individual sovereignty and autonomy, not at the level that an anarchist hopes for, but at a level that is realistically achievable with a dense, diverse, and numerous urban population such as we have here. The disempowerment in California is not the fault of oppressive law. It is the fault of renegade officials who disobey the law, and of a clueless, ignorant, selfish electorate who votes these assholes into office and not only tolerates their unlawfulness but demands it of them.
That's is the real world battlefield for individual empowerment and sovereignty. I stand on that battlefield alone. An army approaches, but I have single handedly managed to keep them at bay.
I am your opportunity to show that you are not just beautiful talk. (Not you personally; I am using you to express my challenge generally.)