When he said the words "liberal techno-communism" in seriousness, as something NFTs could help? He lost me.
I sincerely doubt he's talking about a moneyless, classless, stateless society - what Communism is.
After all, there's (crypto)currencies and private (as opposed to personal) ownership rights. Sprinkle in some representative Democratic State that can build structures to isolate itself from the will of the people? And that's Liberalism, the thing Communists rebel against, critiquing to this day.
Platonically-Synthesizing these two opposites would prove challenging without undermining the premise of one or both halves.
While such a "Left" exists in more authoritarian contexts of international relations? They serve as examples of the failure of the previous "synthesis". Down here in the neighborhoods where life happens? Leftist action is often about showing each other that we're all we need.
Why pay for a plow to scrape the apartment building's lot when we can do it? Why submit to draconian rent hikes from Slumlords when we can form a Tenant's Union? Why let people go hungry when we can throw in on a professional kitchen and the food we need to held our neighbors?
There's plenty of work to do, even when there's no money. So damn the cash, full speed ahead! We have a better world to build. State be damned. Needless Social hierarchy be damned. Just do the things your neighbors need. And never act alone.
Learn from Rojava. Learn from the Zapatistas. Learn from Cospaia.
We don't need some magical thinking about how the Masters' Tools will dismantle the Masters' palace in the hands of some "great man". That same great man who, inevitably seeks - or is forced by necessity - to rise to dictatorship to keep the State together and potentially in line.
And somehow, this whole State apparatus is supposed to wither away on its own? When it is our crutch against "external threats" and the State's own internal corruption? Color me skeptical.
You can use NFT's as decentralized permission tokens for access to decentralized databases.
Abstract all the world's resources and how they're converted between each other into one big linked excel table. Everyone wants to know how resources are moving around, but nobody can be trusted to host "the diagram of everything". Different parts of the excel table correspond to different resources in different places, and have notions of data sovereignty over their resources in the table, with areas of joined access between separate entities along boundaries where they exchange resources.
Obviously you'd use something like soulbound NFT's, so its harder for people to sell off write permissions. But you could use all sorts of Sybil protection techniques.
It seems like one possible starting point for a decentralized communism.
I haven't taken the chance to dig into Win11 to know, but before Edge? Internet Explorer was bundled with Windows' Widget Kit. Uninstalling IE would break how applications would present to the user.
Microsoft makes very weird, deeply hurtful decisions, at a depth very few people understand.
> Uninstalling IE would break how applications would present to the user.
It makes sense for developers to use the native html renderer when they don’t want to have to include a big binary blob (Electron/CEF) to do so in their application.
Their decisions are easy to understand if you understand the motivations of the company. Which is not to please end user consumers buying retail consumer computers
I sincerely doubt he's talking about a moneyless, classless, stateless society - what Communism is.
After all, there's (crypto)currencies and private (as opposed to personal) ownership rights. Sprinkle in some representative Democratic State that can build structures to isolate itself from the will of the people? And that's Liberalism, the thing Communists rebel against, critiquing to this day.
Platonically-Synthesizing these two opposites would prove challenging without undermining the premise of one or both halves.
While such a "Left" exists in more authoritarian contexts of international relations? They serve as examples of the failure of the previous "synthesis". Down here in the neighborhoods where life happens? Leftist action is often about showing each other that we're all we need.
Why pay for a plow to scrape the apartment building's lot when we can do it? Why submit to draconian rent hikes from Slumlords when we can form a Tenant's Union? Why let people go hungry when we can throw in on a professional kitchen and the food we need to held our neighbors?
There's plenty of work to do, even when there's no money. So damn the cash, full speed ahead! We have a better world to build. State be damned. Needless Social hierarchy be damned. Just do the things your neighbors need. And never act alone.
Learn from Rojava. Learn from the Zapatistas. Learn from Cospaia.
We don't need some magical thinking about how the Masters' Tools will dismantle the Masters' palace in the hands of some "great man". That same great man who, inevitably seeks - or is forced by necessity - to rise to dictatorship to keep the State together and potentially in line.
And somehow, this whole State apparatus is supposed to wither away on its own? When it is our crutch against "external threats" and the State's own internal corruption? Color me skeptical.