There was one area that had a government collapse. Things actually went well but then government recovered and returned to harass the people. Wish I could remember the place.
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I can see things going well as long as there aren’t any asshole showing up. Murphy’s asshole show up and then people start talking about how things ought to be.
In-your-face assholes are great in that scenario; its bleeding hearts and "economic hitmen" gifting dependency and delusion that people should fear
Businesses protected certain areas with security for the benefit of their customers. Everyone operated based on self interest. Nothing was forced on anyone. No one paid a tax for something they didn’t want. The fact that the government returned in a short period of time is evidence that the economy recovered fast when the government was out of the picture. The economy went to shit because of the government. Your continued insistence that theft and violence is necessary for a society to function is astounding.
Are you pro consent or pro rape?
There have been so many...
The more typical scenario is retrenchment and retreat by the regime to control only key transport checkpoints and maybe a natural resource extraction facility or two, and extort monopoly rents from those, while the hinterland returns to local tribal self-governance.
An older and less intrusive form of Statism, at worst, so long as traditional cultural institutions for internal dispute management and collective defense are still around.
I was talking a year or so ago with a former mine manager in Bouganville Island, PNG, where this happened two decades back. Well, he talked, I listened. He's still mad, invested a lot of his own money but treated the locals like slaves and isnt afraid to boast of it
It feels to me like scale matters. If I can replicate something in a Petri dish but I can’t replicate at the macro level. Then I have to question my assumptions.
I mean take Satoshi as an example. In order for him to bring Bitcoin into being, he had to come up with a set of rules that became law and ended up governing an entire ecosystem. He wrote executable code that enforced those rules. It scaled to the size of the problem, and then people added more on top of it to scale it even further like lightning. I guess what I am looking for is that practical set of rules that will replace these existing governments that we say we need to rid ourselves of.
We know government/fiat is mining violence. Whether we like to admit it or not, our private keys are susceptible to this type of violent energy. So what’s the set of rules that can deal with the violence beyond the structures of existing governments?