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Interesting question, is anarchy better than Kleptocracy? How does money function without the backing of a government, would you have to go back to a bartering system? Could you even have a global supply chain in the absence of a stable government? Could people be able to self actualize in an unstable society?
Plenty of ways, it's older than governments.
But also we don't need it, and while it does setve a purpose, there are other ways to do that, most of which are less trouble.
Yes? Most of them arent at the behest of governments right now. I have personally put together a supply chain that covered a couple thousand miles, and that was me being a stoner; far from an expert.
For your "stoner supply chain" did you exchange currency backed by some organization or did you exchange precious metals? How did you and other parties agree on the value of what was exchanged?
Well it was drugs(legal now, i think legal then), refined drugs, and candy that was drugged with the refined drugs. I paid in candy. Everyone was hippies, and mostly happy with the arrangement while it lasted.
Like i said; i did this because i wanted to get high on hard candy.
Its not all that complicated, but there were intermediate processing steps, a bit of distance, and a finished product with a couple inputs. I did this as an unhoused stoned 20 year old with zero education on the topic. It's hard, it's not magic.
Everybody involved wanted the product (hard candy that gets you high) to get made, and so they made it.
We live in a world that traps everything behind money. That makes money seem important. It's not.
I want computers to exist. If nobody's making them, im gonna ask an electrical engineer if they're doing anything, and out a team together to build the thing. I don't need money. I need computers to exist. If i need rare earth bullshit, ill ask who has that, and if they want computers to exist.