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323 sats \ 4 replies \ @Louferlou 29 Jan \ on: Manifesto of the Efficient State Movement bitcoin
The simple word "government"or "governance" gives me goosebumps. The fact their exists people that want to govern me seems unbelievable in the Bitcoin space... Don't statists in Bitcoin start to understand that the problem IS the government ITSELF, and not who compose it ?
There is not enough good faith, not enough good will in this world which will not transform any kind of government into a tyrannical one eventually. It is by design, if you base your regime on theft and violence the outcome will always be the same. Even the founding fathers of USA, have failed....
What we need is SHRINKING the state as much as possible, until it is so small that anyone can decide to opt out at will. This means that the State has to be dismantled to make place to free market based organizations including for education, security and justice. This is the goal that we must all envision, and aim to achieve, slowly, one step after the other. Any political engagement should be directed only to the realization of reducing as much as possible the State's scope.
This fight will never end of course as statist will always be there among us with their totalitarian impulses, and will try to nibble as much freedom as they can everywhere they go, whatever they do. But if we can make clear in people mind once and for all that the State is dangerous totalitarian organization of the past (like kingdom, empires, slavery and all this shit), we could gave us a big reprieve.
SHRINK THE STATE
I full agree on the mission to shrink the state, that's the end goal. Perhaps the name should be expanded to Smaller and Efficient State Movement so it's more clear that the "smaller" part of the plan is more important and upstream from the "efficient" one. We don't want efficiency at all costs, we sort of have this now and it's terrible as you keep pushing it beyond the limits.
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I wouldn't say that we have this now - the amount of bureaucracy is too much. Efficiency to me suggests a shrinkage in the size and power of government and faster time to implement policy. Decisions to make these changes should be made by citizens instead of representatives.