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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 Feb 2019
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    I'm no anarchist, quite strongly institutionalist in fact, but I do seem to have flipped the bozobit on government institutions. The opposite is not necessarily "private" or "non-profit". We need a more globalist, post-Westphalian re-imagining of "public".

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    • adam Micah Redding 🧬⚙️🔥🗽 Santosh Hari 😷 Junk 𝓟𝓾𝓼𝓱𝓴𝓪𝓻 Æ Stefan in general my name is bob Coolerator Ovid 19 BC 🐮
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      1. NOLAN GRAY‏ @nolangray_ 6 Feb 2019
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        The public is cycling at an unprecedented Khz. We need a software update in our organizational mainframe. Democracy has been stuxnetted. The conserve faction wants to re install the old operating system.

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      2. Benjamin Dean Mahala‏ @BenDMahala 6 Feb 2019
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        Similar to what I think. I don't think our current nation states are capable of handling the problems of the next century. I am quite at a loss to think of something that could actually replace them though.

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      3. Dave Babbitt‏ @dbabbitt 6 Feb 2019
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        Ophanocracies? They are turning out to be very hard to design, though.

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      2. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 6 Feb 2019
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        here's an aspirational 2x2 X-axis: Power Structure extremes Old boys club <-----> Tragedy of commons Y-Axis: Delivery extremes of Maslow services (water, housing, food, mobility, opportunity) Delivery ^ | | | v Posture / Incompetence / Virtue signalling

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      3. brennan peterson‏ @brenpdx 7 Feb 2019
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        The actual tragedy of the commons was that rich people took the commons and fenced them in, and people starved. it is odd that our political axes are usually fantasy socialism (good and bad!) Vs real capitalism. With a dash of 'no true capitalism' . To own the libs, apparently.

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      1. Andrew Swearengen‏ @andrewswear 6 Feb 2019
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        Sounds like you found your next article topic

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      2. Joe Andrieu‏ @JoeAndrieu 7 Feb 2019
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        Yes. (1) are net proceeds taxed? (2) do you claim the right to use force? (3) do your participants choose to participant? In other words, do you compete with or need an alternative to the state to operate? See blockchain's reinstitutionalization of governance w/o govt.

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      3. Joe Andrieu‏ @JoeAndrieu 7 Feb 2019
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        If anyone can participate, everyone can verify proper operation, and anyone can innovate, we have a new form of public infrastructure that can be built and maintained w/o central control. The Internet embodies this, with limits. Blockchain liberates it from tyranny of funders

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      1. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 6 Feb 2019
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        Some precedential contours: B-Corp (major meh to me)? Platform coops https://platform.coop/  ? Municipalization of utilities? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalization …pic.twitter.com/jBS6jMDTrS

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      1. Theo‏ @TDLAmagi 6 Feb 2019
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        Virtual republics? Similar to the ones in "Snow Crash". I know Arnold Kling talked about them years back (not sure if he still favors the idea.)

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