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I'm not talking about creating any limitations, but rather about what I feel is missing in the current ancap framework, and which would complement it in such a way as to provide answers even to people who are genuinely concerned about power concentration and institutional capture. Through the recognition that markets alone don't dissolve the cultural and social dynamics that allow manipulative institutions to flourish.

Globe99 3w ago

Well there's always the classic "Exit, voice and loyalty", which works whether we're talking about corporations or governments....

One thing that irks me sometimes about general "libertarian" discourse is how much they (we?) seem to be invested in defending the status quo of Giant Megacorporations, especially in the social media space, because they're trying to stand up the other side of the argument from overzealous regulators like we saw in the Biden admin.

It's like dude, Elon Musk isn't the "Howard Roark"-ian figure you're projecting onto him. There he was, lined up behind Il Duce with all the other moguls at the inauguration.

I get that "exit" can be tough when it comes to providers of physical things like Amazon, etc. But it should be easier to Kill your Twitter than it seems to be for most people.

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tree 木 3w ago

The missing piece for me is recognizing that these aren't just corporations or governments, but *any* manipulative institutions that actively destroy our capacity for autonomous action. Market and exit alone cannot dissolve this cultural and social dynamics.

I think we need both exit AND the cultural/philosophical framework to understand why we're exiting - building the consciousness that lets us recognize manipulative institutions for what they are, so we stop reproducing the same patterns. Something like we doing here, put put it into words which can spread :)