Let me be that exception! I think the best way to destroy authoritanism, is to help people become so independent of other’s resources, that they can just decide to opt out of work for good. And there would be no way to strike against them that isn’t blatant force or robbery (Can’t cut their electricity due to bills, can’t cut their food source as they grow their own, passive water generation, technical expertise, no illegal activities, small amount of passive income to cover land tax).
They would still have small vulnerabilities, but it would be quite quite hard to force them and keep them in a toxic workplace, if they can just chill for months or even YEARS, without being forced to work. This will force workplaces to basically suck up to the average employee, increase raises, increase benefits, and oh…abuse would be completely intollerable.
All the technologies that can emancipate us, each and all.
Y’know…
All those technologies that are suppressed by capitalists to maintain their crippling extortionate rents that happen to be very polluting too.
And to, oh, y’know, undo all the McCarthyian redscare psyop that conflates anarcho-communism with totalitarian communism and presents capitalism as the system that frees them.
“Ferengi don’t want to end the exploitation. They want to become the exploiters.” – Rom
Would be a lot easier once people stop falling for all the “advertising and marketing”.
Or if someone just decides to provision everybody with spaceships of their own. Each capable of printing another of itself instantly, sustain life, with zero-point energy powered zero-inertia propulsion, safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home. I hear these already exist (for about a century now). Could have not just “disclosure”, but radical provisioning sublimation. Do you have spaceships yet? And the reassurance everybody else does too so they’re not trying to take yours?
I think the best way to destroy authoritanism, is to help people become so independent of other’s resources, that they can just decide to opt out of work for good.
They would still have small vulnerabilities, but it would be quite quite hard to force them and keep them in a toxic workplace, if they can just chill for months or even YEARS, without being forced to work.
I mean, in theory, sure. But in practice, you’d need a large labor surplus that was unassailable by settler-colonialist looters. How do you marshal these reserves and defend them adequately?
Yeah, the number one issue is military capabilities, and what I fear, since I can’t and won’t teach them violence. I just hope there will be enough backlash if they are disturbed.
The point isn’t just to be a tough, individualist badass. The idea is that you can only have fair relationships, if there is nothing for others to leverage over you. The moment there’s power dynamics, you introduce corruption. But if someone has to respect you, they can choose to leave the relationship, or compromise with you.
Then you can trade all the surplus, make all the relationships your heart desires, from a clean slate. What they have to figure out, is how to organize and fight themselves if needed.
Let me be that exception! I think the best way to destroy authoritanism, is to help people become so independent of other’s resources, that they can just decide to opt out of work for good. And there would be no way to strike against them that isn’t blatant force or robbery (Can’t cut their electricity due to bills, can’t cut their food source as they grow their own, passive water generation, technical expertise, no illegal activities, small amount of passive income to cover land tax).
They would still have small vulnerabilities, but it would be quite quite hard to force them and keep them in a toxic workplace, if they can just chill for months or even YEARS, without being forced to work. This will force workplaces to basically suck up to the average employee, increase raises, increase benefits, and oh…abuse would be completely intollerable.
my biggest worry is they do this a lot though and are escalating.
Yeah. Bring on the emancipatory technologies.
All the technologies that can emancipate us, each and all.
Y’know…
All those technologies that are suppressed by capitalists to maintain their crippling extortionate rents that happen to be very polluting too.
And to, oh, y’know, undo all the McCarthyian redscare psyop that conflates anarcho-communism with totalitarian communism and presents capitalism as the system that frees them.
“Ferengi don’t want to end the exploitation. They want to become the exploiters.” – Rom
Would be a lot easier once people stop falling for all the “advertising and marketing”.
Or if someone just decides to provision everybody with spaceships of their own. Each capable of printing another of itself instantly, sustain life, with zero-point energy powered zero-inertia propulsion, safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home. I hear these already exist (for about a century now). Could have not just “disclosure”, but radical provisioning sublimation. Do you have spaceships yet? And the reassurance everybody else does too so they’re not trying to take yours?
Would you posit that one can prosper once they have become self-reliant by achieving political, economic, and military independence?
I mean, in theory, sure. But in practice, you’d need a large labor surplus that was unassailable by settler-colonialist looters. How do you marshal these reserves and defend them adequately?
Yeah, the number one issue is military capabilities, and what I fear, since I can’t and won’t teach them violence. I just hope there will be enough backlash if they are disturbed.
The point isn’t just to be a tough, individualist badass. The idea is that you can only have fair relationships, if there is nothing for others to leverage over you. The moment there’s power dynamics, you introduce corruption. But if someone has to respect you, they can choose to leave the relationship, or compromise with you.
Then you can trade all the surplus, make all the relationships your heart desires, from a clean slate. What they have to figure out, is how to organize and fight themselves if needed.