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An ongoing court case centering on encryption has thrown light upon the total incompetence
of those in power. And this is not just about the USA and its legal system, it calls into
question the fitness for purpose of every government currently in place.

First, understand that without privacy, there can be no private property...

Now you understand why MA says we may descend into a 600 year Dark Age, if we don't find some way to overthrow the current political structure.

I don't mean to be rude but what would be a better political structure than the one we currently have? I know there are multiple forms that are better, but which ones specifically would be actually viable in a real-world scenario?

You could argue that anarchy, in the without rulers sense, would be good, but at the same time it would hold back technological progress.

The solution is to minimize the size of government, no matter what form politics takes.

I believe the key to doing that lies in a technological solution that will empower the Knowledge Age. The government can't muck with taxing microtransactions, for then they would tax everyone, not just the middle class. The current political structure is sustained by stealing from the middle class to subsidize the unproductive class, and pile on debt since real estate is the primary driver of the economy (and incomes). We need to make high tech work the primary driver of the economy and end the fixed capital investment Industrial Age. The person who invents this technology will be a $100 billionaire and eclipse Bill Gates et al.

Read my latest posts in the Economic Devastation thread.

Don't you think it would be possible to tax only the companies (easier since they need accounting anyway) ?
This would solve some the microtransactions taxing issues and would maybe allow a much simpler tax system.

Yeah but can't tax a company for the decentralized microtransactions between individuals which is the point of a Knowledge Age economy wherein individuals sell their wares directly, such as the music they created, etc..

The government will have a very hard time taxing what requires them to go into everyone's home to enforce (especially during a global economic collapse where people need that income to eat and thus will fight the government). They rely on the fact that companies withhold our taxes.

See my strategy.