Humans can be born without a license, and frequently are. Same with private businesses. Public companies cannot exist without a license. Just because birth, household formation, and private business are heavily regulated in some times and places does not mean they always are. We humans were all stateless tribes once, and some of us still are.
Regarding your second issue, we’re in agreement. Yes it’s true under capitalism that with the heavy regulation of private individuals and firms, everything becomes the public sphere. Your house becomes a public place where your actions are subject to judgement.
Capitalism has always been a creature of the state. Kings gave licenses to private individuals to invest, operate, and run public companies. Nowadays it’s more complex but the first step to create any public company is still to apply for a license. Power and money have always flown both ways. I suggest you look into the Muscovy Company. Created in 1555 as the first joint stock company, it was highly influential politically and relied on its political connections to earn profits. Nothing has changed in this regard for corporations since.
There’s limits to property rights even among the most extreme voluntaryist political philosophers. Rothbard, a famous anarchocapitalist, wrote extensively about why property rights don’t extend to slaveowners.
Unlike private households and businesses, public companies only exist due to licenses from the state. These include limitation on liability, protection for many types of property, and much, much more. The protections even extend to securities regulations; since public companies aren’t privately owned, there is a misalignment between incentives of owners and managers. The state sides with the owners by using force on managers to prevent them from acting in their own self interest, and instead to act on behalf of the shareholder public.
The NAP cannot extend to public companies as they are not privately owned and can only exist when granted rights by the state. A lot of work has been done by libertarians on the topic of how monopolies are formed; it’s not due to private markets.
The big tech companies are not private; they are public companies that rely on state force to maintain their monopolies. Just as an example, intellectual property laws rely on the state for enforcement.
Deniability. The executives can claim third parties are abusing the platform while simultaneously enabling the abuse. Whether or not that’s true, the outcome is the same; cloudflare’s actions force smaller operators to switch to cloudflare.
This is one of Cloudflares well documented tactics to force people to purchase their subscription services. I suspect but have no proof that it is overlooked by the authorities because an internet centralized under Cloudflare is easier to censor.
Personally, I quit my job at a time I had $300/mo in income from my startup and lived in an old suv. Yes there is a bottom limit but it’s much lower than you might think. A big limitation many people have is their family, since if they aren’t onboard (mine was) then it cannot work out. But in that case it’s no longer fuck you money, since you’re trying to earn enough to maintain your family relationships first, an honorable decision to be sure.
There isn’t a fundamental difference between ought/is. Both moral judgements and facts are based on reasoned beliefs.
Why do you think meaning is required for making a value judgement? I can very easily claim that killing humans is wrong without relying on any metaphysics, just like I can claim the sky is blue. Both are beliefs based on reasons; meaning can be discarded.
There’s many forms of nihilism, and purpose nihilism wasn’t the subject of my comment.
A Nihilist is more stable than you think. A tree doesn’t need purpose to grow, and neither does a human. Instead they follow a process that’s expressed by the body in response to the environment. For humans we not only have physical sensation but also memories, ideas, and thoughts. Without a worldview these all still happen, and your body will still react to your thoughts and sensations without a purpose. A healthy Nihilist would not feel sad about having no meaning, since they never had one anyway; on reflection, they might feel happy that there’s no obligation to respond other than how their situation moves them to. A Nihilist can do what is morally right without the restrictions of a purpose that proscribes them to do otherwise.
And what exactly is wrong with a nihilism? If we don’t really know what’s going on, maybe we should accept that truth and move on with living better lives less swayed by political propaganda. Given how many relationships have been ruined because both sides were certain of their political facts, a nihilism seems simply better.
The first thing that comes to my mind for d/acc is disintegration acceleration [1]. Anyway the big problem that’s never addressed is whether humans have political control over the process. There’s a strong reason to think humans don’t; because the neoliberal political system is dominant, and the emerging alternatives appear to be even more technocapitalist. Meanwhile the attempts from both the right (fascism) and the left (communism) to reign in techno capitalism failed.
The point is self custody. Even if a trade were to fail (it’s more difficult than you might think) the funds stay in you custody before and after the trade. That’s different from a cex where you’re trusting someone to hold all your assets. Someone like SBF could not do a similar fraud, even if such a party existed within bisq.
Regarding code, there have been attempts by people to take over p2p protocols before. Most famous was Justin Suns takeover of Steem. Since all the code was open source, most of the community forked the code over to Hive successfully. If a malicious actor tried something similar with Bisq, the community would just fork an older version of the code.
More fundamentally, these protocols work because people are incentivized to make them work. It’s quite different than the vc crypto with the big marketing budgets that most people hear about; most of those are just traditional finance reskinning itself.
Most of these 1099s are going out to people who owe little or no tax on the transactions, such as people who split restaurant bills worth more than $600 over the course of a year.
P2P exchanges like Bisq use escrow and verification methods with dispute resolution for on/off ramp. There are other options as well for secure decentralize offramps, but bisq is much larger than any other protocol.
Unless they do a complete and total eradication program, that will just create a selective environment for tokens that are able to avoid SEC fines. What you’re saying does seem to be the SEC strategy, and it is probably the profit maximizing strategy in the short term. It also requires the least effort; rule making that allowed for regular fee collection instead of sporadic ones might be profitable in the long term, but it would be a complex activity the SEC might not be capable of.
A lot of people use crypto for utility, which is why it doesn’t go to zero in bear markets. Not everyone needs or wants crypto tokens, but those that do form the base of the ecosystem. You can call it dumb money if you want to be elitist, but it’s the same so called dumb as any consumer activity.
Once people start receiving the scary and confusing 1099s next year from using Venmo et al. from Bidens new policy, crypto may seem preferable to some people. Pro taxists often underestimate the fear common people have of tax authorities.
Binance value comes from servicing those niche projects - it’s an exchange. As long as those niche projects exist, new projects will emerge to service demand. What will change is design; future exchanges will be less regulatable. Already dexes are waiting in the wings; UNI has been in a price uptrend due to these decisions.
A smarter strategy would be to do what the US Justice dept is doing; co-opt the biggest players, install plants, and cut down any upstarts. Government enforced monopolies have worked for hundreds of years as an effective way to control industries.
There are over 1.8 million crypto tokens. If the SEC is going to shut down the industry, they’ll need to at least start shutting down more projects per month than are starting up.
You’re right about cheat codes - liberal policies such as freedoms for immigrants, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs are the cheat codes that allow societies to outperform. Indeed, if you exclude all the countries that are successfully using these policies, there aren’t many outperforming Slovakia and many doing much worse. But my point stands that fascism is not good for the native population it proposes to protect, unless you believe that purity of blood/national spirit is itself a value.
The only registered cryptocurrency exchange is Prometheus, and it doesn’t have any trading activity. There haven’t been any rules published by the sec regarding cryptocurrencies or crypto exchanges. Since cryptocurrencies aren’t investment contracts, it’s not possible to comply.
There’s lots more, hopefully these will get you the keywords to start finding more docs. I’m not a mil guy but know some. Actually part of the strategy is to get civilians more informed on the nature of the changing operating environment, because a lot of areas that used to be considered non military are becoming contested arenas.
Also just to reiterate, I don’t think they’ve made the jump yet to realize that relying on congress for funding is going to get harder.
Just get open ai developer access with api key and it’s not censored. Chatgpt is open to the public, with the huge amount of traffic people are going to abuse it and these restrictions are sensible.
That’s definitely a possible outcome. I don’t think the universe enforces cosmic justice though, so it’s just as possible the west transitions into the post-state era with stronger institutions and more access to resources.