one of my big complaints with our laws is that it really excludes smaller, experimental governance attempts. I don't believe e.g. communism works, but I would really like people to have the ability to try out communism in smaller systems without getting regulated out of existence
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and yea you can sort of do these things, but if you wanted to do e.g. a full commune it's still hard - zoning laws, for example, really fuck with ppls ability to experiment with living in the way they want to, taxes tie you to systems even if you wanna live outside of it, etc.
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It bothers me that states aren't more... different.
Shouldn't there be a state that pursues low housing values? One that's not a typical three-branch/bicameral rep. democracy? A state with legalized and regulated hard drugs? One with universal healthcare? One libertarian one?
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The country was literally founded on this idea that states be free to try different things, but over time the federal government has replaced/ overburdened the individual states. OR v ID are about as extreme as you get these days..
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Knowing what communism done to my country I am fully supporting banning any signs of communism into oblivion in the western world
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Civilization is a giant compromise of workarounds that evolved for hard to observe reasons.
Then when some group of dreamers tries some “pure” utopia they start harming people who didn’t consent to be in a social science experiment.
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Minimalist regulations would charge fees to industry in proportion to harmful impact on environment. Fee set just high enough to bring emissions to levels that most people think are acceptable will be the aim of a society that strives to be democratic.
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This is why I want cheap accessible space colonization so badly. Utopians can go try their experiments in isolation without imposing themselves on people who already like the society they live in
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