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Decentralizing Society: The Road to Liberty

by Tom Anderson

Most people in the modern world of today want some kind of change, including change toward political and economical freedom. Or, at least, they long for it.

Today, most people in the western wold already long for some kind of change, some of them toward political and economical freedom.

In times where support of authority and big government are decreasing, what is the biggest hurdle in the goal of bringing about real, fast change?

People are not in control of their own lives, but their government is. We are being assured by the political and media establishment that we live in a modern democracy. What does that really mean? If high-ranked statesmen can uphold and pass arbitrary laws, if they can "propose" them, and let a small team of like-minded politicans decide? You don't need to agree to this practice, someone will agree in your place. If this can and does happen everyday -- even if the majority is against it, and if concerning laws often objectively harm rights and well-being of individuals -- can it be a real democracy?

Individual self-control over originally personal matters is substituted by an all-knowing all-deciding media/politics/political-"business"/institutions elite.

When opening a an account for receiving income, depositing and transferring cash, you can't chose privacy - in a way, all banks are public banks, they are obliged to cooperate with your government. Most banks even agree to this practice, since they get special benefits and privileges from the government in return.

As employee, most of the time, you do not have a choice when it comes to government cooperation. In sensitive matters, such as business laws and income taxation, your employer complies in your place, to make government support easier for you.

People like car owners and real estate owners pay additional adminstrative taxes, which are spent in special areas, but not in a way that we directly control. Even worse with all-purpose income tax. The public has no control over how and for what "public" money is used. Government officials can and do spend money more or less at will. It is usually wasted in projects which at best, could be financed much more effectively and be made less expensive, and at worst, are senseless or harmful to society. All this is not within control of you or me or the "public".

Leaving this system can only be realized through decentralization and privatization of the key elements of society which currently are outside of individual control.

Banks could be privatized -- by eliminating unfair privileges of "public" banks, allowing any small entepreneur to found an enterprise for offering services including depositing, transferring, and exchanging of money and values with other companies in place of the customer, including options for anonymity -- and without having to abide by any government policy, only by own terms of service.

This isn't too far-fetched -- it's beginning to happen already, in the form of online brokerage services, and semi-anonymous cybercash systems, such as e-gold or PayPal.

Jobs and companies could be decentralized and made more independent, by letting each individual control own business, legal, and taxation matters him/herself, and replacing big, slow business with fast, small and flexible e-business, each managed and run by only a few individuals.

That isn't too far-fetched, either -- some trends going into this direction are the home business wave in the US, small but effective business made possible through the internet, and legislative/economical freedom through the possibility of going global.

Last but not least, the area of education is a major source of problems and inefficiencies of today. As industry so much under the control and administration of the government, education is for one corrupted -- teaching children acceptance for bureaucracy, voting, politics, and other things the government likes them to learn -- and it is also inefficient because of the uncompetitive, inefficient system of teacher qualification, education programmes and schedules.

Education is changing slowly, through the homeschooling trend, and perhaps, through the limited effort of financing from the business world, but sometimes to the worse, as in strongly religious private schools, and private schooling is only used by a small percentage of the population.

You might ask, how can a few individuals change this system? First, spreading the right ideas and the knowledge about these problems, can and does help. Also, decentralization of the key areas mentioned in this text are a matter of individual engagement. New, small companies might start building the necessary infrastructure for privatizing and decentralizing these points -- not by waiting for governments, but by outcompeting the inefficient, costly government systems. Any entrepreneur with the right knowledge about what could be the trend of the future can profit enormously in the long term.

Also, the focus of this text is the US, because change should start in the US. As the geographically and economically biggest western country, the US is a trendsetter when it comes to competition in the economy, and it will be a trendsetter when it comes to competition in political and social freedom. Other western countries which do not follow major advancements that happen in the US will have to expect that economy and people migrate away to the US from their more restrictive and unfree political systems, therefore being ultimately forced to change.

 
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