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@Indigo I agree that the word "capitalism" has been tainted by both the "left" and even the "right" to some extent. I prefer "Voluntaryist" or "Panarchist" because those terms sound more "inclusive" and less alienating and they don't imply that capitalism would be the only economic system. "Market anarchist" might imply mutualism or market socialism which I'm not exactly for, but not really against either. Honestly, I'm more in favor of P2P economies. I think that an economy that is mostly comprised of self-employed entrepreneurs is pretty based and advancements like 3D printing can make it a reality.
>we can't do that by digging our heels in and buying crypto.
There has been a lot of anti-crypto talk lately. I'm not anti-crypto, but I agree that we should not treat it like a panacea. It's pretty useful for doing counter-economics over the Internet, but I think for local stuff, people should just stick to precious metals. And people should consider using privacy coins like Monero or PirateChain over something like Bitcoin where all transactions are publicly visible on the blockchain.
People should also consider the fact that the state can (and probably will) force ISPs to block crypto protocols along with anonymizers like Tor, I2P, and VPNs. So, Agorists and crypto-anarchists better start creating underground ISPs and/or meshnets for when the time comes. Biden already signed an executive order that will include more crypto-regulations and is probably going to introduce a central-bank digital currency once the US dollar collapses.
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@icedquinn @Indigo Maybe we can have community regulation of the market instead of state regulation. I think that's what the mutualists want.
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@icedquinn @Indigo
>now the libertarian argument is basically a huge hope that without government protected monopoly a zaibatsu won't be able to acquire enough power to do this
Well, Hoppeans believe that covenant communities can combat this. Ones with socially conservative values wouldn't tolerate such businesses or people supporting them and will disassociate with them.
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>i would like to see better ways to handle the market for people who have low/zero income and social status.
I would probably be a Georgist if such a thing didn't require a state. It seems like UBI that can actually work.
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@cee @icedquinn @Indigo I think Singapore also has a land-value tax but I think it's mostly used to fund public transportation. I wish that these UBI supporters would look at LVT instead.
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i don't really believe in free markets. lightly strategically tampered ones, maybe. market systems are the best we've got but they have many failure modes.