I think you may discount a complete change in societal incentives bit too much.
“Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome.” - A Guy that Hates Bitcoin
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Anybody who thinks bitcoin will tend people towards adopting libertarian and anarchist values due to economic incentives misunderstands human nature.
These group names are what we’ll run away from.
Individualism as a foundation and customized values.
A spectrum.
I also believe a lot of people confuse individualism (which I subscribe to) with egoism (which I don't). Classical liberalism is an individualist philosophy, in that it emphasizes the importance of individual rights as the basis for organizing society.
The idea that states and governments are unreconcilable with individual rights, which is argued by anarcho-capitalists, is a bizarre post-war / anti-communist reactionary philosophy that is egoist at its core.
I like the spectrum model because we get to choose.
Everyone gets to choose, customize more aspects of their life.
As of now it’s hard to customize features of life.
Why is that?
I have a take
Some people are going to lead and some people are going to follow, as has always been the case. Mimetic desire won’t disappear.
The failure of modern liberal society boils down to the fiction that equality (in outcome) is a thing, much less a thing that should be desired. Self sovereign incentives do away with that fantasy.
It’s directional. Given enough time, states/governments erode individual freedom.
Name one state which evolved positively wrt individual freedom without revolution.
No, USA is not one. It forked off because of a 3% tax and reinstated all of the same and much much worse in the time since.
Perhaps so, but todays society has zero incentives toward self sovereign values, and a world where bitcoin is money has many. That is a vastly different world not seen in a very long time, especially not with modern tech. A bright orange future, one might say.
Every human society in the history of forever has developed social hierarchy. Liberal democracy is the best we've come up with to balance the interests of the individual with our tendency to create hierarchal power structures. Public key cryptography is not going to breed this out of our DNA.
Agree that incentives toward self sovereign values will not destroy social hierarchy. In fact it will probably make the hierarchies even more overt. After all, we are all in charge of our own decisions and our own consequences and we each bear the burden of proof of work in our own lives. Respect of that work will flourish, and so will the hierarchies that respect creates.
At least we’ll have fathers at the head of their household again
I am not confused as to the fact that yes, a lot of people who subscribe to these political views have a culturally conservative agenda.
Liberal democracy is build on promising future money to people that doesn't exist in the present. What could go wrong if politicians can spend money they don't have in the budget to buy more votes?
Everyone wants free money and nobody wants to pay for it.
The ultimate public pasture problem which slows the economic growth in the first place.