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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kangu OP 29 Jan \ parent \ on: Manifesto of the Efficient State Movement bitcoin
Maybe you're right... maybe it's not worth it. However, call me an idealist, but I'd much rather live in a world where I get to save many of friends from living through the harshness of the impending fiat collapse (which we all know is coming), than in one where there 1% of us that figured it out soon enough, live in some citadels/bunkers that keep the shit on the outside from coming in.
I do agree that state schools at the moment are complete brainwashing machines and we should keep our kids away from them if we get the chance to do so.
However it doesn't have to be like this necessarily, look up some research on education in Finland, where teachers are highly paid and seen as heroes in society, and where you have schools based on self-directed principles, flexible curriculum, involvement of kids from a young age in their education process.
It's definitely hard, but not impossible.
I don't think there should be a global unique party, I'm thinking more towards the lines of the Pirate Party movement which has a core ideology that is shared, but there are different manifestations of it in each individual country.
The US would certainly be the worst place to start such a movement, at least if there's any hope of gaining momentum. The two-party system there is so entrenched that it's nearly impossible for something like this to make it through.
The ideas are mine, although I don't claim any sort of ownership towards them. For a couple of years now I've realised that we've crossed the inflection point where minding your own business (work, family, stacking sats, everybody has something to do) while not trying to impact society in a (hopefully) meaningful way has a higher cost on the long run than trying to put in some effort in waking up people towards causes that they forgot they cared about.
What I did was come up with the name, the general line and main focus points, ran it though a LLM to fill in the gaps and make it more coherent, then reviewed everything for final adjustments. The textual work is basically a draft and by no means final, it's just a starting point that hopefully sparks some ideas in others.
Implementation would need to be local, and there needs to be groups of people coming together to get this done, especially if it going to be integrated in the current political system. I stand no chance in implementing this myself, nor do I have the time and energy to go full speed behind such a thing, but I would definitely support it by all means possible.
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I would say it's a given fact that bitcoin is growing as an ecosystem and whether we want it or not, some people and ideas that we don't agree with will join in. I think it's our role as people who have figured out the benefits of bitcoin before others to try and protect the core principles on which it stands. But the community will change, and most likely for the worse every now and then, look at the recent ETF thing, but we have to accept and work around it. Bitcoin won't change, it's still the same public infrastructure for everyone even if we agree with the or not.
Touching on the populism idea, I personally think that in order to steer out of the bad direction we're heading to as a mainstream society, a lot of people need to awaken to the fact that they can/do have control and agency over their lives and not everything is in vain - if we put our minds and hearts together for a greater cause, there is hope that we can move the needle just enough to avoid the over-arching totalitarian world government to which we're heading to.
The core of my optimism around the opportunity for a "new" system lies in the fact that if we center it around technology and un-forgeable code, we remove a lot of direct human intervention from the equation, which has more or less always been the root cause of the monster creeping up.
On the point of "governance"... I think up from a certain point of growth in a society, people naturally want to delegate tasks to others. If feels like an extension of the division of labor concept which is at the root of our society's development. I don't really want to care about, for example, public road infrastructure, but I do want that handled somehow because it's beneficial to me and everybody else, so naturally there's a role that appears, which seems like a "public job", to handle that.
The current size of government across the world is ridiculous and ever growing, so there's something clearly wrong with the incentives there. But to say we need NO form of government (common handling of common issues for society) doesn't make a lot of sense for just everything. In my opinion, there are some areas which apart from a functioning free market, do need some sort of intervention and oversight - like transportation, housing, medical care.
The issue with government and democracy in general it its current form is that, much like bitcoin, doesn't scale very well to very large societies. Going back to ancient Greece there were let's say thousands of "citizens" in a town... now we're talking about millions. We need more tools to provide more transparency, one issue is that most government action is opaque and hidden from the public - if more would know exactly what is going on and what is their tax money used for, they would strongly disagree. I think in this respect bitcoin is very much aligned with the transparency concept and could provide benefits to common people easily figuring out what is happen with the money they give to the "state" (forcibly like now, or voluntarily hopefully at some point).
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.
It would start with encroaching on the current establishment with a political party movement. If that gathers enough public support, it could make its way through elections and start implementing changes. It's not easy for sure, but I think generally people that support the state as a functioning body do really want it to work for them and for others as well. It would be a more approachable way of handling the growingly oppressive state, rather than saying "we don't need it, we don't want it", we could say "let's all agree to change it for the better". And any small win towards a smaller and more efficient state is a net positive for society, even if the full vision doesn't get realised.
How about this? https://radicle.xyz/
Holy shit... I checked that guy out... his body's appearance is somewhere between impressive and worrying :)
Well, whoever they are, they are only in control because we choose to use the money that they issue at their will. Once a peaceful revolution comes along and the majority wakes up to the fact that they have now the power to say "no, I'm going to use anything else", they'll only have the military. But even for that, they need to pay the soldiers with something, once soldiers don't accept fiat, it's game over.
For sure, for technically capable-people it's not a good idea as it goes against sovereignty. But for normies... they freak out when they hear they need to secure 24 words somewhere... Multi-signature is another option but again it's just not for beginners really. Beginners need to know someone has their back, even if they need to pay a monthly fee like to Ledger.
Having this as just an additional option I think makes sense, I heard Pascal the CEO of Ledger talking on the WBD podcast and he does make some valid points... the current best practices we have work just fine for a small set of people, the rest get freaked out and keep their money on CEX platforms which is a terrible idea.
Indeed the passphrase can be brute forced, but you can adjust your security depending on the threat level. If you're like a potential target in a hostile country or something like that, you want to go more secure; if you're in a relatively peaceful place where the possibility of seizure is not that high, I think you can get away with a shorter one, just so you fend off any smaller attackers that might get a hold of your seed phrase.
So for myself and close people, I'm sure I'll definitely stay away from such a service, as I can secure my seed just fine by myself. But I can see some cases where I talk about bitcoin to less technical people and seed phrases come up, and the option to use such a service might make sense for their particular situation.