RE: Rethinking Anarchist Doctrine
Great article and I agree. However, wouldn't many of these problems have easier solutions if we didn't have such huge waste? I would argue that more than half of Americans' wealth is stolen both through taxes and currency debasement. Most of that wealth is not spend serving the people, but blowing them up and controlling prices. If we all switched to blockchain currencies, think of all the extra wealth we would have to voluntarily help our elderly and poor.
I think the transition to voluntaryism is already happening. It isn't going to happen overnight. It is going to happen in ways in you just described, and by us choosing to trade in crypto rather than government fiat. If the whole world switched to sound money today, most problems could be gone by tomorrow. It will take a little bit for everyone to get in, though.
I understand that, but the question is how are you going to convince people.
You first have to show people that the alternative systems works, before they jump the boat. So we already have to have a "voluntaryst infrastructure" in place before we shrink the size of the government.
You cant shrink it without having any other organization to replace it. Yes a lot of taxes are wasted, but people associate those taxes with the welfare benefits.
So we first have to detach the welfare from the government, and then start to eliminate the taxes. Because cutting the taxes, and then letting people starve on the streets isn't an option either.
And I am not talking about the US here, they spend a lot on the military. But in Europe, most of the spending is on Welfare. So that is what I am highlighting here.
Very true. I think once people realize how hard the banks have been screwing them for the last century, we will see a huge transition from banks to blockchains.
It certainly won't happen over night, but it would be a lot cooler if it did.
I'll just leave that to Bitcoin.
But on the government services side, some decentralized organizations, DAO's could easily replace them.
We shall see what will happen.