Do you think this is going to be difficult?

• The war against the war-machine?
• The battle with Big Tech?
• Destroying debt?
• The confrontation with GMO?
• The pissing contest with Pharmaceuticals?
• The clash against the prison industrial complex?
• The engagement with poverty?
• The conflict with corporations?
• Guerilla tactics against government?
• The fray with fiat?
• The clash against centralization itself?
• Reclaiming the means of production?

So many ways to disagree violently.

When we add up everything crypto is being stacked up against, it looks very bleak and completely impossible. People who are about to hike up Mount Everest aren't like, "Yeah I can do this no sweat." It's daunting and must be taken one step at a time.

But none of that really matters.

We do not have to dismantle the legacy economy. In fact, dismantling the legacy economy would be bad for everyone. Nobody wants that. It doesn't serve a purpose. In fact, we should be working to prop up this failing system so we have more time to make the transition to a better one.

At the end of the day, all crypto has to do to win: is scale. That's it. We scale we win; it really is as simple as that. Venture Capitalists and Corporate Executives and Investors and Leaders have all been searching for this one thing. How can I scale up?

• Scaling up means more volume.
• Scaling up means more efficiency.
• Scaling up means more money.
• Scaling up means more progress.

The problem with scaling up is that once you get to a certain point the foundations start to crumble and corruption sets in. We can see that the maximum size a corporation can scale to is about two million people. And again: that is the MAX. That is like, okay you got 2M people in there but your system is trash and on the verge of collapse and it can't scale anymore. Crypto can scale much much larger with strong foundations on flatter architecture.

The problem with flat architecture, is leadership.

Actually, there are a lot of problems, but governance is a glaring one. If no one is in charge, how can we get followers on the same page working together to build something great? The answer is so complicated I could write a book on it, and even then I'd probably be wrong in many instances. The fact remains: it is very very difficult to scale up flat-architecture.

Fix the scaling issue, fix the world!

It becomes clear that we don't have to fight the legacy systems. The legacy systems are buckling under the pressure of their own weight already. If you destroy the Matrix, you destroy everyone in the Matrix. That's 99.9999% of the population. Not a good idea, unless the plan is to lead a cult in a post-apocalyptic future where you're running around impregnating girls half your age and torturing your enemies Game-of-Thrones style. Not exactly something anyone plans for really! These things just happen!

Jokes aside.

We don't have to fight anyone. All we have to do is build a better system. That's what a lot of these 'communists' and 'socialists' and 'anarcho-capitalists' don't get. If you want a better system: build a better system. No one is standing in the way. Do it: we're waiting.

oops, you failed... get lost!

All these revolutionaries in the world fail to understand that the world operates like it does for a reason. This is it! This is the best we could do. Pretty sad, but also pretty good. Netflix is fabulous. Running water is a miracle (seriously). Even plastic bottles and ball-point pens are quite impressive. Bring one of those items back 1000 years and see what people say about it.

How did you print perfect lettering on this plastic bottle?
This is water-proof and floats?
How does the cap fit on there so perfectly?
It's flexible?
This is obviously worth at least as much as an entire pig!

For frame of reference a pig purchased at a local farm would cost you at least $500 these days, and a plastic bottle would cost you $0 because it's garbage. That is the magic of technology, abundance, and centralized control/direction via imperialism/capitalism.

But (un)fortunately, imperialism has done scaled as high as it's going to get. We can stack this pyramid no taller. A pyramid is a very resilient shape but requires an exponentially large foundation to increase in size. We've run out of foundation. The middle class is disappearing. Everyone knows that a strong middle class is the backbone of a strong economy. Crypto fixes this.

But it fixes it in a very weird way that we currently barely understand.

Why do we not understand cooperative open-source economy?
Because our current economy is the exact opposite of that.
Permissioned IP ownership and open-source don't mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C8sSEiAaTiY&ab_channel=RussellBrand

This is the video that prompted this post.

This was posted by 3SPEAK on Twitter.

_{Still need to do a post about Russel Brand & Joe Rogan.}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C8sSEiAaTiY&ab_channel=RussellBrand

So in this video we see this old-school socialist/communist Yanis Varoufakis try to describe how socialism would be implemented, and how once implemented, it would destroy capitalism. Seeing this perspective from such an old-school player reminds me how insanely complicated this "solution" truly is.

Now it's also important to mention that Russel Brand is really taking a big risk here, because he's managed to get a lot of support from the right recently by calling out all the craziness going on in the world right now. He's even been labeled a QANON conspiracy theorist at this point even though, like me, he comes from a radical left-wing background. So when he tries to engage in a discussion of socialism with such a diverse group, gotta hand it to him that is pretty ballsy.

How do you do it without the all-powerful state that eventually becomes corrupted?

Greedy, self-seeking politicians...

How would markets work?

Imagine a corporate structure with no management.
(This is not a fiction; these exist)

No bosses... completely flat management.

Everyone did what they wanted to do.

How do projects get done?
"We have an INTRAnet."
"I want to work on that who wants to work with me?"

How do you decide who to hire?
[Nominations combined with company-wide vote.]

What about compensation? You can't pay everyone the same.
[Allocate money for fixed expenses]
[Allocate money for R&D]
[Everyone gets a base-pay (passive-income/UBI)]
[Everyone votes on bonuses] (no self-voting) ("brownie points")

Capitalism theoretically collapses if enough companies do this.
[no wages; all profit sharing]
[impossible to buy shares: elimination of share/stock markets]
[individual companies decentralize into smaller parts]

And if the central bank... imagine the central bank was to give each one of you... a free digital bank account. What is the point of having an account with [a retail bank]? Retail banking collapses.

Meritocratic Democracy...

HM!

Gee boss, sounds kind of familiar!

The only thing that Hive doesn't have is universal basic income, because in order to have UBI, as I have already described recently, we must all be working in the same physical location (a certain type of KYC identification is required). This is the 'only' way to prevent Sybil attack, as one person would act like multiple people in order to scoop multiple UBI incomes.

But as we all know, Hive takes this socialist idea and multiplies it by infinity. How? HIVE IS THE CENTRAL BANK. We don't need no central bank to give us an account. Bitch please, we ARE the central bank! Once old-school socialists realize what is going on here their minds are going to be full-on blown.

As @threespeak has already pointed out this system already exists on Hive, and it is already superior in pretty much every way described. Hive gets the best of both worlds in terms of socialism and capitalism, and how that system interacts with the legacy economy. Our votes are unhackable, and can be issued anytime anyplace. One person one vote is a thing of the past; coin voting is the future (and that's fine).

The future of communism is not equality; it's equity.

Just look what I have personally been able to achieve here given like zero resources. I worked for Amazon for 4 years part time, making $12k a year. Now I magically have a quarter million dollars of Hive alone. I'm a scrapper, and I'm always going to be a scrapper. Even if we all got paid the same (communism) I'd be able to allocate that capital a thousand times better than my peers and ascend the ranks exponentially. That's just how it is.

This is why I constantly make claims about how crypto and Hive are communist/socialist. Because they obviously are. Unfortunately, these are bad words that society will not accept, but never fear, because calling it anarcho-capitalism is just as good.

On one side, we have anarchy.

Many misinterpret anarchy to mean no government and no rules.
But as Andreas Antonopoulos so graciously explains:

Anarchy is rules WITHOUT rulers.

That is all.
And crypto allows us to automate out the rulers, slowly but surely.

And then we have capitalism.

And capitalism is the status quo, so it's not a difficult pitch.
Therefore anarcho-capitalism is a great compromise for everyone.
Does matter if you're anarchist, capitalist, communist, or socialist.

Even kings and queens will agree with anarcho-capitalism if they personally receive more power within the new system. Which sounds incorrect but it's not, because the new system is so much bigger than the old one that much more power exists to be claimed in the first place. Who wants to terraform Mars? Who wants to visit other solar systems? Who wants to give every Mormon their own planet? All this and more can be yours in the attention economy, where people are the highest form of collateral available.

Conclusion

Once again, competition is being projected into this new thing that doesn't even have borders. How can a market be cornered if the market doesn't have corners? How can the Metaverse be owned by Facebook if the Metaverse is a massive polylithic living entity bigger than the current Internet and the economy combined? Clearly, our understanding of what is actually going on here is extremely limited. The first step in venturing out into this new environment is admitting we have no idea what's going on. Try not to get eaten by a lion, would ya?

We don't have to compete!

We just have to not die within this massive emergent environment.
Good luck to the legacy system, ya gonna need it.

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