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Why us big plus weak bad if rich societies work that way? Because poor societies work even more that way and that’s how you go from rich to poor. Aka what sone are starting to call brazilification in the US
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what's wrong with big and weak governments if lots of rich societies are so governed?
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Hypothesis: anarchism is often the right question, but never the right answer. Humans just have too much desire to be governed. Governance is about reducing the complexity of life. Via lots of defaults. Hopefully sensible, but we’ll accept senseless defaults over no defaults.
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This stuff is on my mind because tomorrow the will be releasing an early draft of a paper on online governance, at our second annual meeting. We’ve been grappling with these issues for 18 months now, as have most other such communities.
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Undergovernance is at the root of things we misdiagnose in many other ways: meaning crisis, burnout wave, great resignation… Nobody is being led, managed, supported, or complemented as much as they’d like to be, in the ways the want. “Not paid enough” is the tip of an iceberg
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What people want is benevolent, nurturing environments. What they get if they stay in society (voice) is benign neglect at best, oppressive exploitation at worst except if close cronies are in power. If they leave (exit) they get anarchy.
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Not the nice Ursula Le Guin kind, like Annares in The Dispossessed, with beautiful, functional mutualism among responsible adults, but the “hey where do I find this link on this discord” kind 🤣
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I'm bullish about what Web3 (the technology) can do in principle, but bearish and pragmatic about what Web3 (the people) will do with it in practice.
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