Quote from: BadBitcoin (James Sutton) on March 25, 2014, 01:40:22 PM

Quote from: phelix on March 25, 2014, 01:25:50 PM

Libertarians and people more in favor of direct democracy share this goal.

IMHO everybody on the blockchain technological frontier has a moral responsibility to decentralize power.

De-centralized power is nice when we aren't under threat.

Climate Change won't be solved by de-centralization of power, and if our alien neighbours decide its time to inhabit earth and get rid of the indigenous population I have a strong feeling that mom and pop who have their own 3D printers so they can make guns and robots in their house won't be able to stand up against existential threats.

Such as? The most immediate existential threat comes from state power, i.e. 1000s of nukes. I can't see why climate change should be a threat at all, even if it happens. Even if it were, I can't see what govt can do about it - except for the already discussed population culling.

Quote from: BadBitcoin (James Sutton) on March 25, 2014, 01:40:22 PM

For now, de-centralization is nice because it makes each individual worth more. But in the event that we need to work as one and we are all de-centralized, we're going to be obliterated. Take look at the city states of Europe before the Romans conquered them, and then imagine what would have happened if the Roman Legion suddenly invaded a historical European Union.

The Roman Empire is a good example of how any time the government say "We", the rest of the sentence is a lie. The average Latin farmer had no benefit from all the conquest. They only died in it. All the loot went into the pockets of Marcus Licinius Crassus and his friends.

Had the Roman Farmer understood this, they would have left their neighbors alone and everyone would have been better off (xcept Crassus, of course). For them, the best course of action would have been to simply walk away from the power centers and so it is for us today.