Recent content by xeed

Effectively by what definition? Economically? How exactly does how much money a society makes define how well it functions? Europe is in general far more socialist than America. Guess which has better living standards? And yet that is the effect profit and moneymaking has. It only lends itself...

...please tell me you meant to say the Romans... The way to prevent democracy from devolving into hierarchy and tyranny, is to have a constitutional document that explicitly forbids, under threat of justice, any infraction of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and...

Why don't you think it can be done? Greeks, Arabs and Spaniards are currently fighting hard to remove their governments and replace them with libertarian socialist ideals.

Why would others want to gain the knowledge and resources you have if they have access to it themselves, free of charge? Again, why would anyone try to get a hold of something they already have? Even if someone did go on a stealing spree that would probably be highly uncommon and the person in...

Which is why I said 99% and not 100%. People, despite what has been drummed into you since childhood, do not have to be motivated by money to work. The motivations that should be for work, would be in this system: Work for purpose, for creative outlet, for cooperation and for accomplishment. I...

I am not an anarchist. I am a socialist libertarian, which I believe anarchism would naturally blossom into. 1. people need food, water, energy, etc. 2. sharing all resources and knowledge allows maximum cooperative efficiency 3. creating an abundance of all our needs makes money, gov...

I don't know how you can even argue that women would not be allowed to vote if we had direct democracy. Direct democracy by definition would include women, and women would not vote to stop women from voting.

If that was how we did it with an uneducated populace, that's what would happen. In modern times people are far less gullible than ever before. We have an open information source (the internet). That's all you need for direct democracy to work. By the way, women voting and gays marrying...

I contend that the very fact that we still have people starving and dying of thirst is proof that profit, or a system that holds profit as the most important thing to society, is evil.

And tell me, if society was fully privatized, you don't believe functions necessary to our health like that would be carried out by someone? And by law enforcement I mean enforcement of laws that are necessary to protecting our rights to property, life (which includes get this HEALTH!!!), and...

The FDA and DoA are law enforcement agencies...

Mob rule is only bad if it can wield its power on a large, military scale. There would be experimentation, and the societal functions that work best would be adopted by most.

Why do you think it would be any different? It would operate under direct democracy on a regional scale (eg, the "blueprint" of society being completely open to individual contribution)

No, not a system of "government", a system that operates WITHOUT a government that operates with direct democracy and regional cooperation. Law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies would be the only exceptions. Literally every other government agency is a pile of unneeded garbage.

Which is why the only system that would work with the least amount of corruption and abuse is a lack of a system. If you think that wouldn't work I'll direct you to open source projects, which often work brilliantly. And there's no reason the CIA can't have some oversight by a neutral...