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We talk about post-capitalism like it’s a thing, but not post-democracy. All post-democracy paths seem like reactionary paths backwards. I suspect post-capitalism seems more real because it feels like we can improve on money as a technology but not on voting as a technology.
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Money and votes are both transactional technologies of ongoing consent. I give/take money from you = I consent to mutually update a contracted non-violent relationship state I vote with/against you = I consent to mutually update a contracted non-violent relationship state
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The diff is money is positive-only by design. Negative monetary transactions are theft or extraction (non-consensual without value in return, whether by thieves or the state in the form of fines) But votes can be “negative” in the sense you and I can vote for competing sides.
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There is something there but I’m wary of directly deriving political and spiritual from economic and material. Like I said I think the former has an independent foundation and process character that must be modeled separately and then coupled in.
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