Robert Hirsch
1 min readApr 22, 2022

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I see. So nothing actually about web3, but a long rant against capitalism, and a delination of your desire that The One True way exists to crate a system by which everyone is equalized (despite this working worse historically than just letting people be free)

You also left out an important phenomenon that is ONLY possible with elements of crypto and web3. Voluntary societies.

They have existed since the dawn of man. Religions tend to be voluntary societies. Many Native american tribes and nations have had elements of voluntary societies. The problem come when these societies get monopolistic powers provided by governments with the monopoly of the use of force. All the things you hate, are almost always empowered by the government.

As soon as your grand idea about how to make everyone equal involves force, your grand idea belongs in the dumpster.

But with voluntary spocieties, those grand ideas including different amounts of wealth redistribution, differing amounts of social programs and univerality of social benefits are possible. Heck you can be part of multiple voluntary societies and grab multiple benefits, or none. If you break rules, you can be exiled (instead of thrown in a box).

But instead you, like Noam Chomsky, and 99% of medium writiers, all good at pointing fingers at poor outcomes, and terrible at thinking beyond the status quo, and just thing of other ways by which people must be force to participate in your ideas.

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Robert Hirsch
Robert Hirsch

Written by Robert Hirsch

Author, Maker, Father, Dreamer. Robert received his Ph.D. from RPI in Mechatronics. Since then, consumer devices, renewable energy, and now blockchain.

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