David Graeber on how to trigger Bitcoin Twitter during a bear market:

"Then there's also libertarian socialism, which means the democratic control, not by the state, but by communities or by workers, self organizing in a voluntary fashion--that's genuine socialism in my opinion."

https://x.com/chunkymark/status/1044264672504016897

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Yes, people will give up their land voluntarily for the greater good.

Ah if only he were still around. I just started reading Pirate Enlightenment, which is fascinating. This line in particular, I think, is relevant here:

"...there is a kind of mathematical glee to be found in reducing all human action to self-aggrandizing calculation. But these are ultimately tawdry pleasures."

It is incredible how this ideas are demonized and misrepresented.

I repeated the same propaganda too until I accidentally discovered that some issues that bothered me for years, like the self-reinforcing rent seeking where already analyzed by Marx 150 years ago, long before it was so extremely obvious.

It's a complete rabbithole on its own

Super bizare if you know what these people really did.

Wouldn't a ride share protocol on Nostr be this? Controled by the users, using it voluntarily, and no corporate or govt (centralized) management control