You can determine right away whether your Country is genuinely democratic or merely pretends to be.
If your Republic (res publica in the ancient tongue) is the shared property of its citizens, who alternate as equal partners through a Public Jobs Bank, then yes! Your Country is truly democratic, and everything works wonderfully for you.
But if the Republic is held captive, possessed by a caste of Lifelong Oligarchs—hired-for-life employees, a closed congregation of bureaucrats and careerists—true monarchs, in effect—well: where is the Democracy in that? Where is the periodic renewal of personnel in public roles (as mandated by Democracy without exception) that gives rise to true citizen participation?
It remains the old monarchical state: lopsided, crooked, and rigid, where the fortunate continually prosper and the disadvantaged constantly suffer. It is the old tyrant state that has unduly persisted due to a continued abuse of power by the Republic's own jailers.
In such a Country, it doesn't matter if the governments keep changing. If the Republic (the public offices, institutions, jobs, powers, and incomes) are perpetually controlled by the same people for as long as they live, there will never be equality, justice, or freedom.
Dear Coders, Cypherpunks, Crypto-warriors, and Builders of the Future... don't you think it's time to stop ignoring all this? Can one ever truly enjoy freedom by perpetually hiding behind encryption?
Do not play solely on the defense. If our societies still suffer from the legacy of a tyrannical past, it falls to us—the zealous lovers of liberty—to conceive a new center of power that is worthy of our time, and equal to the measure of our hunger for freedom.
Then... let us begin re-coding our Republics!
D. D'Antonio, originator of
Harmonic Social Rotation (HSR)
Laboratorio Eudemonia
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The Public Jobs Bank as a DAO and the Role of UI
Instead of trying to make a tyranny work, let us build a true Democracy and Republic.
You can determine right away whether your Country is genuinely democratic or merely pretends to be.
If your Republic (res publica in the ancient tongue) is the shared property of its citizens, who alternate as equal partners through a Public Jobs Bank, then yes! Your Country is truly democratic, and everything works wonderfully for you.
But if the Republic is held captive, possessed by a caste of Lifelong Oligarchs—hired-for-life employees, a closed congregation of bureaucrats and careerists—true monarchs, in effect—well: where is the Democracy in that? Where is the periodic renewal of personnel in public roles (as mandated by Democracy without exception) that gives rise to true citizen participation?
It remains the old monarchical state: lopsided, crooked, and rigid, where the fortunate continually prosper and the disadvantaged constantly suffer. It is the old tyrant state that has unduly persisted due to a continued abuse of power by the Republic's own jailers.
In such a Country, it doesn't matter if the governments keep changing. If the Republic (the public offices, institutions, jobs, powers, and incomes) are perpetually controlled by the same people for as long as they live, there will never be equality, justice, or freedom.
Dear Coders, Cypherpunks, Crypto-warriors, and Builders of the Future... don't you think it's time to stop ignoring all this? Can one ever truly enjoy freedom by perpetually hiding behind encryption?
Do not play solely on the defense. If our societies still suffer from the legacy of a tyrannical past, it falls to us—the zealous lovers of liberty—to conceive a new center of power that is worthy of our time, and equal to the measure of our hunger for freedom.
Then... let us begin re-coding our Republics!
D. D'Antonio, originator of Harmonic Social Rotation (HSR) Laboratorio Eudemonia