And, like every anarchist experiment before it, it failed. It continues to draw in new suckers every day, and that is a problem for society.
It doesn't matter if you didn't cause the problem. Because you live in that society, you still have to pay the cost to fix it or continue to take the losses from the problem existing.
It's the same with slavery, not educating blacks, and then not employing blacks in America. I had nothing to do with it. My family had nothing to do with it. But because I live in America, I have to either pay the cost to fix the problem or pay the ongoing cost of crime that the problem produces. Taking on the cost of problems others created is the cost of living in society, just as benefiting from the value that others create is the benefit of living in society.
The time to regulate crypto and cut our future losses was yesterday.
Just because "The Internet"'s _mainstream_ may not resemble anarchy, this doesn't prohibit other parts to resemble anarchy. In fact there are a lot of examples active and thriving "on the Internet" fulfilling various definitions of anarchy.
Sure, but I think that still fits a common definition of anarchy. The idea isn't "chaos," it's "hey, the thing still works even though there isn't a clear hierarchy."
Then you should clearly define "success". So far as I can tell, the Zapatistas did succeed in building the society that they wanted and kept it going for several decades now. Are you claiming that they aren't meaningfully anarchist?
>But because I live in America, I have to either pay the cost to fix the problem or pay the ongoing cost of crime that the problem produces.
The "crime" the problem produces allow a lot of white men to put their kids through college, fooling themselves into thinking they are stopping "bad guys".
If you dont keep them busy, they would create far more crime than you think black folk do. They might even start storming the White House.
To be fair to anarchists, it extremely often failed because of outside forces being violent towards them. Nothing in anarchy is inherently doomed to failure, and is a better demonstration of democracy than anything we have currently. (Because if there's anything an anarchist loves more than voting, it's one more voting round).
Calling cryptocurrencies "anarchist" is walking on the corpse of actual anarchists and taking a big, steaming shit on them. Anarcho-capitalists have nothing to do with anarchy and are just kids whose bedtime reading was, regrettably, Ayn Rand.
Anarchy is defined as absence of government and authority, with unlimited personal freedom as a consequence. This is fine if you're living alone, but in groups, you have unbounded externalities. Tiny councils are tiny governments.
If you let your own ignorance define anarchy, sure.
Anarchists simply want every single thing to be voted on by the people, whether through referendum or randomly picked representatives. Anarchists agree that there should be governing bodies (merely that they shouldn't be the ones we have right now, and that they should be more representative and prevent the formation of a political class) and that authority should also be granted by these governing bodies _and_ revokable by the same. Hence, there is nothing an anarchist loves more than voting. It does not prevent living in groups, just that there are no leaders in that group.
By saying it is defined as an absence of government and authority, you're either thinking of ancaps (which are a bad right wing joke made up of said Ayn Rand readers), or dogshit propaganda fed to you. Read a bit.
And, like every anarchist experiment before it, it failed. It continues to draw in new suckers every day, and that is a problem for society.
It doesn't matter if you didn't cause the problem. Because you live in that society, you still have to pay the cost to fix it or continue to take the losses from the problem existing.
It's the same with slavery, not educating blacks, and then not employing blacks in America. I had nothing to do with it. My family had nothing to do with it. But because I live in America, I have to either pay the cost to fix the problem or pay the ongoing cost of crime that the problem produces. Taking on the cost of problems others created is the cost of living in society, just as benefiting from the value that others create is the benefit of living in society.
The time to regulate crypto and cut our future losses was yesterday.