That's helpful. But there are compositions that aren't immediately obvious. Is Durov/Zuckerberg the
government? Or the governed? Both? Dave's invocation of Chevron is appropriate, here. In one
perspective, leaving Durov/Zuck to make their own decisions based on their scoped power/expertise
is problematic. In another perspective, there's a plurality of ... commonses (?) ...
"platforms" like Truth Social or X, which should be free to fail based on alternative
governing/governments. And from yet another perspective, the Great Man fallacy applies and
Durov/Zuck don't really have any power/expertise at all, it's the bushy heterarchy of employees and
participants that, through their collective behavior, produce the higher order phenomena exhibited
in the "commons" they host.
The individualist bias of self-governance is myopic to that bushy heterarchy.
On 8/27/24 11:27, Stephen Guerin wrote:
What does it mean to "govern"?
I define governance as enabling constraints on the social systems to achieve
least effort coordination. Government has a role as do Corporations.
Elinor Ostrom provides alternative bottom up rules for governance and is a guiding ethos
of our "digital acequia" work.
https://www.shareable.net/how-to-design-the-commons-or-elinor-ostrom-explained/
<https://www.shareable.net/how-to-design-the-commons-or-elinor-ostrom-explained/>
And of course, Marx dissolution of the state as a natural outcome of a classless society
where communal ownership would render centralized governance unnecessary has connections
to Ostrom's work on collective management of common resources which suggests that
decentralized, self-organized communities can effectively govern shared resources without
the need for a traditional centralized state apparatus. While dissolution of Nation
States is not on the near term horizon, dissolution of Big Tech "governing" our
data is a more reasonable near term target.
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