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I’m far left—we’ve covered this is detail in my newsletter—and yet I’m aligned with and grateful to many folks on the crypto right. Why is that? Well, the beauty of decentralization is that if we can truly achieve it, the things we hate about both sides won’t be possible. Allow me to explain 👇
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With power dispersed to the edges, especially around things like voting, contracts, and transacting the opacity that enables corruption is diluted. The middlemen that enable bureaucracy are eliminated. The state becomes less and less relevant.
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Without a state to centralize power, the military becomes unworkable, as do the police. And since these institutions serve only the capitalist class, private property is essentially unworkable. Even the ancap dream of private militias is unlikely. Workers will own their economic output and diminish the role of capital.
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I was thinking private police can work a lot more efficient - if there’s a crime, community will put money towards finding the outlaws, as how it’s been working before probably all our existence
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Yeah this is actually in some ways what the left has been fighting for for years. Abolish the police literally means replace the state fascist forces with community policing and effective services that likely eliminate the propensity to crime before it starts
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