What had once been at the fringes of right-wing libertarianism is now mainstream in Washington. Greenland has long been on the radar of the crypto-libertarians as a territory to start their ‘network states’ dream; coincidentally, just as their cash has captured Washington politicians, the US is now talking of invading it.
Is there a more harmful dynamic at play? If those who believe your country is in irreversible decline are put in charge, might they intentionally worsen its state to prove their point? Some argue this is already happening.
Coincidentally, some might argue that is happening too.
Instead of company towns with a company store, they’re now talking company states? Tell me people are going to wake up and realize a corporation never has ypur best interests in mind.
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if its run by companies, then they can change the payment to being allowed to have food and shelter instead of money. What are people going to do, rebel? Boil the pot slowly enough and majority will accept anything, even slavery as long as you dont call it slavery.
They’re pouring their money into immortality research so their lifespan will be long enough to reach Mars.
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Crypto bros have just one issue. They are all economic parasites, worst than your average landlord, with no real concrete function, service or product that any society or anybody really depends on. They are not saying that they want to take over states, but at this point they would need to take over states and suck them dry to save their grift.
They have nothing real to offer, since their meme money is worthless by itself and all they want to do is to do speculation by wasting electricity, hardware and compute. Crypto speculation like any speculation is only possible anyway when there is free money and no interests around. You snap free liquidity out of the picture and these cretins would crash and burn all they way to lowest pits of hell where they belong.
Unincorporated man was supposed to be a dystopia
Cyberpunk timeline.
I always thought network states were just online communities
Perhaps for some, but the idea of making them physical territories has always been there too, and arguably is the idea in the ascendant now.
