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I was trying to imagine a perfect system: several dictators that control access to their own chunks of scarce resources, plus several dynamically formed groups

• ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  I’ve heard it said that “The best form of government is an absolute monarchy. The worst form of government is an absolute monarchy.” It depends -entirely- on the monarch. I’m not sure I buy the premise of the article, but I also don’t have a viable alternative, which, in many communities, means that my opinion is worthless. I just got finished watching -yet another- documentary on WWII, and was struck by how so many of the reasons for the start of the war, were because a very few individuals had poorly peer-reviewed, anecdotally-tested philosophies, that they nonetheless were successful in making mainstream, by sheer force of personality (and arms). "The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake." "There's always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong." -H. L. Mencken
• marcosdumay 5y ago
  It's #2 with freedom for people to express themselves on the channels that will accept them and organize themselves over channels, even creating new ones if needed. That basically creates a marketplace of ideas, that I guess it's what you wanted from the beginning. Beware of cancellation culture and power concentration.