On Thu, 5 Mar, 2015 at 7:42 AM, dave miller <[email protected]>
wrote:
"Daniel Larimer, who is working on a tool called Bitshares to apply
blockchain technology to banking, insurance and company shareholding,
believes that this new breed of technologies will ultimately render
government entirely obsolete. "
This assumes that government isn't already obsolete. I feel
government is something imposed on me by people who want the world to
be split up into nations, which is another artificial creation. The
new breed of technologies might make it more obvious that government
is entirely obsolete.
The replacement for government that many crypto-* proponents have in
mind is a voluntaryist / agoric / Libertarian / anarcho-capitalist
paradise.
It's trivially easy to critique, but it's an *economic* ideal order,
and a vision of a better future on its own terms. Which is the kind of
thing that used to be the domain of the political Left, and may explain
some of the resentment that it engenders in that quarter.
- Rob.
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