RE: Empire as the Price of Bureaucracy
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He's wrong, but that is a common misconception. During war, government diverts vast sums of money into advancing tech for war through brute forcing results. It's a terrible way to innovate, and benefits to consumers are just the silver lining to a very dark cloud.
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yes exactly and that's what I was thinking man, while he was talking I was saying to myself I respect the man but I'm not going to listen to this just because he's a billionaire
The government built arpanet... in collaboration with educational institutions. And the internet didn't really explode until after it went public. Crypto is (as far as we know) not a government thing. The military made advances in combat aircraft, but the aeroplane was developed privately. Trains and automobiles came from the private sector. The list goes on and on.
the private sector kinda did most of the work then
Government produces nothing. Everything it has is stolen property, and it redistributes that wealth to those who can achieve the ends of the political class. Far from a motivating power, it corrupts everything it touches.
Call be a radical if you like, but I have become convinced of this core truth over the years.
i agree with you man, and for a long while I've been thinking whether there's a future where we can completely run without a government
There are a lot of people who have been seriously exploring how to build alternatives to government. Decentralized dispute resolution, ownership record keeping without property taxes looming over your property rights, defense, and more. You could try Chaos Theory by Robert Murphy or The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman. Neither are perfect, but they are good starting points
I see well that means there are options, perhaps after they master quantum computing we could find a true workable path to a utopian society
It's not a problem of computing power. Trying to have a computer-administrated society solves nothing. GIGO is an eternal problem.
This is a rather true and unfortunate reality then