Society seems to be increasing complex. I can hardly imagine what it would be like to be a kid at high school at the moment, but some common themes are developing that can bring it back together for everyone are emerging. One of them is decentralisation. In itself it seems a sophisticated idea but it can be really simple.
In the past 50 years community and the collective good have found a partner with centralised control systems. Clubs, neighborhood associations, charities, union representatives, and philanthropic executives. These have all faded and proven insufficient. Clubs community groups and sports associations have no money and actually no a day's struggle to stay legal with government regulation. A different aggregate of centralization.
I think the major causes of the destruction of community centers has been social digitisation and people having less and less spare time. Computers and the ever enslaving economy. Bitcoiner would argue this is because of macro economics but for normal people it's just a general trend of work becoming you are, computers making it easy to get a social kick and real social contact dwindlingvtovthe obscure.
This phenomenon is exaggerated by internet organisations like you-tube or spotify restricting features . It is more bizarre because these features have zero marginal costs to them, despite the negativity they restrict them in order to generate subscription charges. Everything online starts to become commercialized.
The only escape from this online is decentralization. A place where people volunteer their time and where dedicated patrons are fairly and evenly supported. Decentalisation on the internet allows for everyone to participate as much as they can and stops elites from pressing an unfair advantage.
Collective organisations have been growing. A common theme in any hipster cafe graphity scene. Organisations where unanimous agreement and donative subscriptions allow the support of many in a cultural niche. Not al that different from bitcoin if you ask me. Opensource developers work for free sharing their work just for the love of it.
Coders are not hipsters. Bankers and economists are even further from it. I would argue that the opensource movement is very collective and Bitcoin as the currency is the ultimate collective for savers.
In the past 50 years community and the collective good have found a partner with centralised control systems. Clubs, neighborhood associations, charities, union representatives, and philanthropic executives. These have all faded and proven insufficient. Clubs community groups and sports associations have no money and actually no a day's struggle to stay legal with government regulation. A different aggregate of centralization.
I think the major causes of the destruction of community centers has been social digitisation and people having less and less spare time. Computers and the ever enslaving economy. Bitcoiner would argue this is because of macro economics but for normal people it's just a general trend of work becoming you are, computers making it easy to get a social kick and real social contact dwindlingvtovthe obscure.
This phenomenon is exaggerated by internet organisations like you-tube or spotify restricting features . It is more bizarre because these features have zero marginal costs to them, despite the negativity they restrict them in order to generate subscription charges. Everything online starts to become commercialized.
The only escape from this online is decentralization. A place where people volunteer their time and where dedicated patrons are fairly and evenly supported. Decentalisation on the internet allows for everyone to participate as much as they can and stops elites from pressing an unfair advantage.
Collective organisations have been growing. A common theme in any hipster cafe graphity scene. Organisations where unanimous agreement and donative subscriptions allow the support of many in a cultural niche. Not al that different from bitcoin if you ask me. Opensource developers work for free sharing their work just for the love of it.
Coders are not hipsters. Bankers and economists are even further from it. I would argue that the opensource movement is very collective and Bitcoin as the currency is the ultimate collective for savers.
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