nations were a mistake
Accumulation of wealth is not the same as producing what members of society want and need. Consider this: when steel prices crashed because more was produced than demanded, that hurt the economy. Isn't that backwards? Shouldn't abundance be a sign of a thriving society?
What?
The other people who can also defend themselves because there's no monopoly on violence?
This is literally what giving a monopoly on the use of violence to a central government is?
i have heard this idea before but i think the biggest and toughest nation state will just start conquering and stuff.
that idea doesnt rly contradict my idea at all?
oh wait no i wasnt looking at what you replied to
ya i mean idk implementation and im not gonna be the one to try it or anything just bullshittin
yes. im saying that i think in an anarchist system there will very quickly sprout up a primitive government and rules on the legitimate use of violence, because people are willing to yield their right to kill in exchange for perceived security of being killed. and governments are better at war than non-governments? how do you prevent governments from sprouting up?
It's not worse here than it is in China
fraud/corruption isnt quite the same thing as inequality
basically i dont think people will respect any implementation of anything unless they are forced to. by a central government with a monopoly on violence. so in equilibrium there will be some wars and eventual unification.
maybe one day we can let AI overlords manage the system and stop us from making governments but by that time i think there will be enough stuff to go around that theres nothing to fight for and we will be playing videogames all day or something
half of china is doing subsistence agriculture with zero net worth.
This is why you need to do basic research on the things you talk about. All anarchism centers around the constant destruction of hierarchies. They will emerge again and again and need to be destroyed again and again. This is the notion of permanent revolution.
The Mongolians sweeping through Asia into Europe would like to have a word with you
The statistics say otherwise. You have a source?
Nobody wants to live in a communist/socialist system, we want to live in a meritocracy and capitalism is the closest we've got to that
Nobody in the US is going to stand behind the people trying to burn down federal courthouses, throwing temper tantrums because they want anarcho-syndicalism or whatever
It just poisons progressive political movements
I'd argue that more graft/corruption would necessarily lead to greater economic inequality
the mongolians are working together. if they are working together they have some kind of system. plus; arguably the problem is that the chinese are not sufficiently centralized to be good enough at war. chinese unification has always been pretty flaky.
ok i see anarchy demands eternal war. i think i prefer my current lifestyle to eternal war.
This is literally War is Peace lmao
U can't make this shit up
Capitalism is necessarily anti-meritocratic. When surplus value is accumulated, those that hold that surplus value are able to generate more. It makes it even more rare that someone without pre-existing wealth can become wealthy, while the wealthy are almost guaranteed to stay wealthy
how about we increase the tax on inherited wealth to 100%. does that fix it?