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Appreciate the back and forth @BlokchainB. We don't share all the same ideas but we have some common ground. I'm all for voting with your feet but there are many factors to consider for me personally. If I had a place to go that worked better for me I'd go there for sure. My thoughts are more about how do we figure out how to get along in a better way with our fellow man. How do we best organize and I'm pretty sure we have yet to figure it out. I know it isn't socialism. I'm pretty sure the nation state isn't the answer either. Maybe private voluntary communities in a free market driven world would work.
There are people trying it so only time will tell.
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Personally and practically I want to be a part of building better systems like bitcoin. I'm not working on the code but I'm a user and try to help in ways I can. I try to increase my own resilience through many avenues. I'm active in my community. It is easy to sit around and complain and do nothing positive. Its easy to passively wait for the government to fix things. For those of us in bitcoin we should understand that its better to build a better system and future than just try to tear down the existing one.
But, there is still value in seeking to understand why the system today has issues and what parts of it work. That's what I try to do.
People need a common ground or understanding if not forming a voluntary communities for more freedom feels like a fantasy.
Freedom from taxes, wokeism, like where does it end?
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Yes they do need common ground and understanding. That's the point...
The drive for more diversity for diversity sake is a fools errand and seems more and more like a fantasy to me. The whole point of a a voluntary community is that people would CHOOSE to live near people of like mind. I mean... its really just the idea of nations but on a smaller scale. Its an old idea really. Its also being tried in several places already.
Old examples are the Amish but the private cities movement is more liberty minded example. In many ways we saw this voting with your feet thing happen during Covid as well. The US states are not libertarian but several states have zero income tax.
I think when people talk about anarchism they envision some utopia where everyone is living in a hippie commune. That would exist I'm sure and go up in flames. Most people don't want that including me. But currently people are so limited in their thinking due to only hearing from the Ds and the Rs.
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