To be clear Jasper, I’m not only writing for you. I’m also writing to elaborate these thoughts in my own mind and to provide a future reference for anyone seeking information on these topics. I intend to combine these ideas into a more pragmatic white paper and community project eventually. What I’ve expressed to this point are philosophical, even mythical propositions. They are intended to be general because truth lives in abstractions. They are phrased obscurely because the imagination dwells in the mysterious. I realize people are not accustomed to speculative reasoning, least of all in a place like reddit. However, I think they require this treatment since we are in new territory with these technologies, and because we have very uninspired and overly-specialized ideas about what this technology is capable of enabling.
That said, I don’t expect us to have the solutions. That’s not part of my objective. It’s far too self-indulgent to believe we will be the ones to come up with the answers. There are many far more capable than either of us who will work out the implementation. My aim is primarily to raise awareness, secure cooperation, and facilitate action in the direction of these common goals. The fact that you tacitly agree with the idea of using decentralized technology to employ universal taxation, an unconditional basic income, and a wealth cap is already sufficient for my purposes. It implies your belief in a moral law higher than yourself. It implies your belief that bitcoin is not the digital currency of the future. It implies your belief in the liberating potential of distributed consensus technology. It implies a great many things. There are many who would defiantly oppose the mere suggestion of this kind of arrangement. It’s good to hear you are not one of them.
Essentially, we need to stage a larger debate and collaboration among those who are sympathetic to the decentralization of law and society. There are far too many working independently. We need to bring together the public, academics and researchers, the open source community, and everyone else who is interested in this development, into a singular movement, or at least interconnect them more effectively. For example, nothing would please me more than to see some or all of the following efforts combined:
We would be in very good shape if we could help focus these projects into a kind of Wikipedia DApp-style ecosystem for economic, legal, cultural, and political organization. If we had this, everything would take care of itself. How to make this happen. That is the question.