[ilaksh]

I can't help but put my own related ideology out there.

My belief is that whether you start from a fundamentally cooperative approach (communism) or a primarily competitive one (capitalism) you are ultimately going to run into the same main problem: over-centralization. This could be a large bureaucracy of state-run corporations or just large companies in a primarily capitalistic society that evolve into monopolies over time.

It seems in both systems whether they start with the sharing or competing idea that ideology gets diluted by practicalities over time. Which makes sense because we must be able to cooperate on some level in order to have a holistically functioning society, and we must also be able to compete in order to have some freedom for things to evolve.

But also in both systems we have conglomeration and over-aggregation. My belief is that we have proven that the basic structures are missing some key components that might prevent this from happening.

I think that the key is really to improve the basic technology of money and government as it intersects. To do that we need to examine carefully the underlying assumptions of what money and government are, and take a contemporary approach to improving those systems, employing our high technology. And as I said, one of the key problems we have with the relatively primitive systems in place is over-centralization. Capital/power accumulates and that makes it hard for the system to adjust to local circumstances, hard to evolve, and even hard to function.

So I subscribed to subreddits like r/rad_decentralization, r/bitcoin, r/btc, r/ethereum, r/polycentriclaw. I think those kinds of technologies and ideas are the general direction we need to go.

[wu-ikkyu]

>we need to examine carefully the underlying assumptions of what money and government are

What would you say are the most important assumptions we should challenge?

[ilaksh]

The most important part is that the fundamental structures and mechanisms are assumed to be unchangeable and correct. Unquestionably. As part of the belief system. To the degree that they are invisible. And the these basic societal technologies of money and government are not evaluated from the ground-up in a high technology context.

We exchange money for goods and services. It is paper or some digital token. It has universal application. It is scarce to some particular degree. It is one-dimensional even though it is universal. It is issued and maintained by authority. It is stored in digital or real form by banks. The allocation of money to various purposes is tracked internally only.

Government has absolute authority and power over deadly force. Government is monolithic or at least has a monopoly on public control. Government has a central control system. Government is primarily organized and operated by actual human beings in hierarchical groups. Government is enforced by traditional taxation, manually applied fees determined by repetitive human judgement, legal writings, groups of human lawyers, and physical policemen or agents with physical force.