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MadEmperorYuri  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are Hubski's Political Views?

    When few people are given the power to rule the many, even when their mandate is one of service, that power corrupts. I believe that instead of governments we should have trade bodies, collectives that represent the people that work in their trade. These bodies decide the value of the goods they produce and trade them with others.

That just means that we'll have rulers naturally selected based on their access to valuable resources and labor for which others are willing to pay highly.

    People are, on the whole, self policing, meaning that an expensive and corrupt justice system is largely unnecessary. Instead, since the system would allow 0% unemployment, people who do wrong are punished by their peers.

But what does "policing" mean? Somebody could decide policing means making sure all the purple people work in the fields 16 hours a day while the yellow people take care of "managing" them, and that all people with long hair should be the docile, domestic property of people with short hair. Anything else would be a crime, and there would be no mechanisms or safeguards to ever change that state of affairs.

0%? You're going to work the elderly? The children? The pregnant and the injured and the sick?

    The most corrupting thing in our society, money, would also be unnecessary. Since the trade bodies set the value of their goods, they can negotiate fair value for what the people they represent need in exchange for what those people produce.

But what if group X wants something only group Y can and does produce, but group X has nothing group Y wants? What if group X's people are in danger of great suffering without group Y's product?