Imagine: Sovereign communities in cyberspace. Territorial nations that compete for contract residents.
Imagine earning money with no government having any claim on it. Imagine the end of feudalism. |
Imagine earning money with no government having any claim on it. Imagine the end of feudalism. |
I've imagined that...in meat space.
Sea Steading and Asteroid Settlements.
Now imagine being able to earn money, experience community, educate your children, and conduct all of the important business of living in a "place" in cyberspace that is a sovereign constitutional monarchy that is capable of defending itself against territorial powers.
You still live in Texas. But now your relationship with the U.S. government is contractual, and you can shop for such "residency contracts" in a worldwide marketplace. And if you want to live out of a backpack and wander, as I do, you can purchase the right to do that from any territorial government that offers such a contract.
I'm not talking living on a fucking abandoned oil rig in the North Atlantic. I'm not talking about colonizing asteroids or the Moon or living under the surface of an ocean. I'm talking about NOW and I'm talking about creating real sovereignty for each and every human being on the planet.
Estonia
AFAIK from what I looked at earlier in response to your earlier suggestion, Estonia is exactly the opposite of what I am proposing. Estonia invites people outside of Estonia's territorial boundary to conduct business electronically within Estonia's jurisdiction.
What I am doing will enable people who are physically within Estonia's territorial boundary to conduct business both electronically and physically OUTSIDE of Estonia's jurisdiction.
IOW, just because your body is physically within a territory, will no longer imply that what you are DOING is within that territory.
oh.
The basic idea is that much of the behavior that territorial governments like to regulate consists of speech. The Internet makes it obvious since over an wire or a radio wave only speech can pass. The most important example is exchange. If I sell you my labor or my truck on STEEM, in exchange for crypto, all of that activity is pure speech, except for the actual delivery of the truck and the crypto. Since it is pure speech and it occurs "in cyberspace", I plan to claim that the activity occurred outside of the boundary of any territorial nation and is hence not subject to that nation's jurisdiction.
Such a claim is without practical effect unless it can be backed by force. That's where my software comes in.