2021-02-15 ------------------------------------------------------------------ One of these days I am going to put my vision of world government on paper. The outline can't be as hard as the division between capitalist and socialist makes it seem. Or the division between anarchic and authoritarian. If you take these as four corners of a plane, you get somewhat handy way of looking at things, but I feel like you also need some other dimension that stands for the size of the governable object. What you would get with the addition of the third dimension is a system where you can have "blobs" of anarchy defined within a bigger area of institutional space. X-axis: Anarchy vs Authoritarianism Y-axis: Capitalism vs Socialism Z-axis: Small vs Big Subject For example, I think that anyone making less than 30 000 a year should not pay taxes or fill any paperwork in order to be allowed to do business. They should be allowed a fast lane through all bureaucratic hurdles. At the same time, a big international company doing the same business as the individual should have all kinds of "just in case" safety mechanisms and social programs forced upon it. Another example. A bureaucratic body such as EU or UN should have within it a vast array of "skunkworks", with weirdos working on some completely impractical strangeness. These should have well-defined feedback loops into the rigid system around them. You have to have the tools to see the type of domain you are in, and you have to have ways to separate the domains. ------------------------------------------------------------------