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„why would you have a different governing body
really whackadoodle, on their voting thing, „I got for the river, a different governing body for the
my Dash or my Monero and I’m going to vote mountain, and a different governing body for the
whenever the vote comes around, I’m going to region?”
be a miner...” You’re going to need that. We actually do have
That’s the next level of responsibility. Everybody that already. Like I said, I’m giving my money
takes a different level of responsibility, and that’s to these different organizations. So, becoming
good. a leader means you’re always a leader, that
When people say, “everybody’s got to vote”, you means everybody. You’re always a leader, and
want to take into account other ways of voting you’re a leader in the area that you care about. I
Every non-profit is people voting by putting money, don’t think there’s anybody on earth that isn’t ta-
which is kind of a tax, into that thing. king some action, in an area that they care abo-
For example, I voted for the school non-profit for ut, that isn’t getting paid for it. The person who
inner city kids, and you voted too. just takes their bottle and puts it in the recycling
We had a budget and, each of us voted our bud- bin instead of in the garbage is taking an action
get, it still represents our interests and our caring. they’re not getting any money for but, about so-
I don’t have to vote on every issue. People ask mething that they care about.
me „what do you think we should do with the It might be that they care about their neighbours’
educational system?” porch. But again, that societal norm is that their
I don’t know. I have no background in education neighbours all decided that you should separate
so I can’t make a smart vote. I actually differ. your trash.
Not on identity, but from the delegated identity We mow our lawn. I have some friends in a cer-
people who are like, „I’m going to delegate my tain neighbourhood, and I was talking to them
vote about education to that smart guy over the- about their lawn and I said, „you gotta mow your
re who knows about education.” lawn. You have to mow your lawn in our neigh-
That’s ‚liquid democracy’, delegated voting. borhood.” So they’re taking an action for their
I’m not going to delegate my vote to them. Let neighborhood, because otherwise the neighbo-
the people who really care vote, and let me not urs are going to talk to them.
vote, because I really don’t know. Even if I think That’s still a social norm of a community saying,
that guy knows I’m probably wrong, because I „we all mow our lawns, it doesn’t get longer than
don’t know. I’m quite stupid in that area. So, not this amount of inches, you can’t have a stone
everybody has to have a vote on everything. thing, you have to have a lawn and not stones
That’s also our problem with democracy today. on your front porch.
We’re like, „you know what, we’re going to send They created a community and they don’t have
John and, John is going to go to Paris, he’s go- any enforcement mechanisms, other than they
ing to represent me on everything!” look at you funny.
John doesn’t know about everything. So with these mechanisms the biggest problem,
But we’ve created a government where you’re and why they haven’t worked until now, is that
supposed to. It’s crazy! I think there’s nothing we don’t have good technology for organizing.
wrong with splitting up our responsibilities. I We’ve used hierarchy.
think that’s how it’s going to be. People ask, Now, hierarchy is very good.
That’s an expression of my responsibility. If I’m