Neither the militarized state capitalism of the United States nor a centralized welfare state is an adequate goal for us.  The systems perpetuate material, cultural, and environmental deficits.  Technological innovation...Bitcoin, Tor, Nostr... provide platforms for rational social order and the free association of people.  They empower the laboring masses, push the commercial and financial institutions toward democratic control, and disable the ideology of possessive individualism, predatory capital accumulation, and exploitation by external authorities. These institutions are inhuman.