Plenty of tech examples. Question is: To what extent does 21st C. political-economy follow tech?
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
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Replying to @anomalyuk @Outsideness and
This is obvious to everyone except tech-fantasists.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @anomalyuk and
How is it controversial? The question is about integration or disintegration of territory, not the necessity of security.
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Replying to @Outsideness @anomalyuk and
Because no tech on the foreseeable horizon readily portends a threat to that territorial monopoly on violence thing.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @Outsideness and
Any path to territorial decentralization must necessarily disrupt said monopoly and (physically) force it to concede.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @Outsideness and
routing around it sounds like sufficient disruption.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Outsideness and
Routing around is limited—enclave communities, black/grey-market agorism, cryptocurrencies… nothing at a scale of systemic significance.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @cyborg_nomade and
While I fully endorse this sort of thing for purposes of personal liberation, I can't pretend that it'll change much of the overall scheme.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @Outsideness and
I sincerely doubt that diminishing the tax base won't pressure states.
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Some things are more easy to tax than others. Can't tax one thing, pick another.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @mfckr_ and
this is a losing game, unless we're talking about land, and then we're into neocameralism.
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