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Democratic Collective Welfare

by | Jun 15, 2016 | dao, merkle, platform

– Ralph Merkle State of Satisfaction.   Annually, all citizens are asked to rank the year just passed between 0 and 1 (inclusive). If you wish, you can think of this as a poll of each citizen’s individual welfare, where 0 means the welfare of the citizen that...

Governing by Prediction Market

by | Jun 15, 2016 | dao, merkle, platform

– Ralph Merkle Futarchy, proposed by Robin Hanson, is a proposal to govern by prediction markets. The proposal seems like an excellent approach for improving upon existing democratic forms of governance. The general concept: To aggregate knowledge from across a...

Archimedes

by | Jun 14, 2016 | tax

– by Mark Twain “Give me whereon to stand”, said Archimedes, “and I will move the earth.” The boast was a pretty safe one, for he knew quite well that the standing place was wanting, and always would be wanting. But suppose he had moved...

Original family

by | Jun 14, 2016 | bookchin, family, sexual relations

Iroquois society was based in the matrilineal clan where women lived with their classificatory sisters – applying the principle that “my sister’s child is my child”. Because they lived and worked together, women in these communal households felt strong...

The Modern Corporation | Murray Bookchin

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized

In some of your writings, you, and some of your colleagues talked about how each mode of production, to borrow the Marxist terminology, tends to create a certain epistemology or way of looking at the world. Are there any other ideological trends commensurate with this...