If property rights, division of labour and low time preference are the fundamental principles required for civilization then it is self evident we must reinvent the current paradigm.
An 4 year election cycle creates an environment of high time preference as a society.
Centralised authority claims rights over property in many ways.
If that means 2 of the fundamental pillars are corrupted, are these the required targets for change? Decentralised money obviously improves property rights from the perspective of store of value of expended human energy and bitcoin allows that value storage, and projection over space and time. This doesn't target other property rights though. Lowering time preference in election cycles can only be carried out through increasing the time of any government which would exponentially increase the potential for corruption through entrenched systems. The only conclusion is that any large centralized system is counter to the idea of improvement in the quality of "civilization" over time with regard to improvement of "the human condition". Still trying to visualize a system of decentralized anarcho capitalism and how this disrupts those corrupting paradigms. Just looking at the squabbles in my local community, there has to be a very well structured system of incentives and disincentives to align individual desires into cooperative groups.
Maybe this rainy day is a good day to sit back and contemplate!
