Decentralization

Roadmap to World Peace

When humans began social groups around 12,000 BC they were in small tribes. Everyone knew everybody. You could trust your neighbor, since survival depended on it. Jobs were delegated to appropriate people in your tribe and all survived. Around 10,000 BC agriculture was developed, tribes got together and formed communities which in turn formed civilizations. As the population grew it was hard for people to remember individuals and keep track of work (Dunbar’s number). The solution to these problems was government through centralization. For many centuries; with the exception of the Greek and Roman republic, humans have lived from a top down approach. Monarchy to empires was the normal way for society to function.

A game changing technology was then created around 1440 known as the printing press. This invention allowed information to be distributed around villages. It freed society from information of a centralized state and church. It was this invention that helped catapult the American Revolution. The founding fathers of America knew that a decentralized government would be the ideal solution for the newly founded country. They created three branches of government; Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, from this came about the most prosperous country in human history. Fast forward to 1990 we have the birth of the internet. This allowed for decentralized communication. Starting around 2009, another great technology came about known as Bitcoin.

Bitcoin helped start a new revolution in technology creating blockchain; a new computer decentralization system on the back of cryptography. This gave rise to an ecosystem whereby people can trust one another without any formal vetting procedures. Soon there may be digital governments where humans can interact with one another.

These digital governments can have your choice of law be it USA, English, or your local laws of your choosing along with choice of adjudicator and enforcer. There is also decentralized production of material and energy along with decentralized currency and contract systems.

Pathway to a Constitutional Republic

United States of America

Pathway to a Constitutional Republic

We as a citizenry need to reform the government to the foundations of a constitutional republic as our founding fathers had intended. We propose doing this through a couple of constitutional amendments.

1. Balanced budget amendment- Each Fiscal year congress does its Constitutional duty to appropriate and apportion revenue to the government; passing laws to allow for a negative income tax to fund social programs; in time of national emergency to go into deficit spending and so forth.

2. Term Limits in the US House and Senate

These reforms would have to be done through a Constitutional Convention in which two thirds of the states legislator would have to approve the amendments and bypass the federal government. Washington and the Establishment will not vote themselves a pay cut.

History

The founding fathers of The United States of America understood the universe is a machine governed by laws that can be understood by the human mind. Men who broke from all political traditions and originated a political system relying on their own intellect created America. How much government is too much? Where should society draw the line of government involvement? Is the role of the government to act as big brother? Should men pursue self-interest and let the free market determine the imbalances and corrections? Let’s now take a look at history for a moment and start in ancient Greece, around the 4th and 5th century BC. When we look at historical facts, this was a period in human history when scientific and mathematical principles had their foundation for today’s innovation. Around this time period we see not much government involvement. People were allowed to pursue their own self-interest and discover new philosophical and scientific principles to help create western civilization. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle pave the way for modern philosophy and political dialogue. Hippocrates’ scientific methods and study of the human body lay the foundation for modern medicine. Soon after this brief period we see the rise of Alexander the great and his empire, followed by the Roman Empire, benefiting from the discoveries of political and scientific principles during the 4th and 5th century BC. The fall of the Roman Empire gave rise to the dark ages in which society was thrown backwards and there were no new scientific principles discovered.

It was not until the Renaissance period when there was another age of enlightenment from Michelangelo, Galileo, and Leonardo da Vinci. During this period the government was the city-state and a free market along with credit had come of age. Soon after this period we saw the rise of Spanish, Dutch, French, and British empires.

Then came the American Revolution and the founding fathers established a government from principles based on both ancient Greece and the Renaissance period. Thomas Jefferson “Wise and frugal government as one which restrains man from injuring each other and otherwise leaves them free to their own pursuits of industry and improvement” From the constitutional convention came the new US constitution, based on majority rule in public or political affairs, with limits based on individual rights. Along with this new form of government came an economic system based on Adam Smith’s free market ideas and the invisible hand. This was the American system for much of the 19th and early 20th century.

During this period we see Thomas Edison transform electricity and Henry Ford making work more efficient with the assembly line. The Red Cross and other charity-based organizations were founded. This was a period when government was of little importance and people were allowed to pursue their own self-interest. During the late 1920’s through the 1930s we saw greater government involvement to help end a great depression, which was caused by a failure of government according to Milton Friedman. Dr. Friedman noted the Federal Reserve System did not play by the gold standard rules and contracted the money supply.

This greater government involvement hindered international finance and the flow of capital around the world. It was not until the last few decades of the 20th century in which global finance was reborn. Today we see more free trade and the expansion of new ideas around the world with the advent of the Internet. This free movement of ideas and capital hits right at the core of the principals of what the United States of America was founded on. This freedom allows Humans to have the ability to discover universal principles; apply them to change the universe.

In order to maintain what our founding fathers had for the United States and the role of government, we must not fall into the trap of a governmental program paved with good intentions. We see today the flaws of governmental programs such as social security and Medicare, all based on good intentions. The solution to this problem is to go back to the proper form of government, which is to protect our rights as citizens, from foreign invasion, and courts to resolve citizens’ differences peacefully, and not as brothers’ keeper. Getting involved with more governmental programs requires the government to do good with other people’s money. This is far from the truth!! No one manages money better than themselves. This is why voluntary consent and voluntary cooperation should be the gold standard between people, and the creed of the United States of America should be reason, individualism, and capitalism.