RE: A practical problem for the Anarchist and New Age Voluntarists (and any other starry-eyed idealist). (featuring @vuyusile as author)
So how would the glorious revolution march forward on the shoulders of anarchism and voluntarism in the absence of state coercion, and arrest this state of affairs and bring substantive liberty and equality to all those that live as both victims and perpetrators of the violence represented in these statistics?
Simple; there will be more wealth and prosperity, which means less stress and more charities.
People already are social, it's just that due to the pressure the government puts on the economy by taxing it so heavily that people are burdened. Take that burden away and society will simply function better.
Private groups will start all kinds of help organisations, just like you see happening here, take #robinhoodwhale for example.
Nobody forced those people to start a charity ... they did it anyway!
RobinHoodWhale doesn't lose any money for their "charity." He is literally helping people at... Well, I was going to say no cost but he's probably actually making Steem on the deal.
even better !!
think about it; profitable charities
how great is that !? there are going to be so many of them, think about all the people that will be supported.
But again, there is no cost. Real life doesn't work like that. We can't just magically hand everyone a yacht because it costs money to make a yacht.
I think you have presented the better argument.
Even with more wealth and prosperity, the problem remains one of distribution because capital circulates in pools that not everyone accesses. Of course everyone has theoretical access (its the dining at the Ritz point) but everyone isn't accessing as a fact. And that fact is due to a number of considerations not always within any player's control and both fair and unfair.
Take our involvement on this platform as a case in point. Early vs late adopters; featured vs unfeatured authors; shifting of goalposts because of rule changes, etc.
It remains a fascinating experiment in using rules to shape behaviour. As long as we don't forget that its rules are as limited as a Keynesian model. The real world is much more complicated with a host of influences that we haven't event begun to get a handle on.
More opportunitues would exist if communities for voting were smarter as barter, and hunan capital would enter the market as viable tender. One doesnt need to "own," the yacht, just have access. Consider the groupon model. https://steemit.com/anarchy/@zev/a-practical-solution-for-the-anarchist-and-new-age-voluntarists