I know what anarchism is, mate. That’s precisely why I find it hilarious that people are non-ironically thinking about it as a solution to any of the world’s problems.
I mean, if you’re pining for a utopia, might as well go for a full blown post-scarcity communism - equally childish, equally impossible.
You are right, it is not analogous to local government - but surprise surprise the people who advocate for the destruction of the state don’t want an analogy to the thing they want to abolish.
Go look up self-governance, and how it is applied in places such as the Chiapas and Rojava today.
There are vacant homes so if there was anarchy… People would identify and relocate to those vacant homes… By some means.
Or “if it wasn’t for this damned government, I wouldn’t be throwing away carrot skins and old leftovers, I’d be making vegetable stock and unregulated penicillin with them”.
More like if it wasn’t for this system, we wouldn’t be wasting 300,000 potatoes to make packets of chips that went into the bin when they didn’t sell compared to the more advertised brand.
More like if it wasn’t for this system, my toaster wouldn’t conveniently break 2 weeks out of warranty, and I would have a right to repair it myself.
More like if it wasn’t for this system this empty house with squatters wouldn’t be evicted and left empty again.
Okay so we’re going to overlook the waist created by 350 million consumers disposing of unconsumed food products and focus on 150,000 lb more or less of product produced by the potato chip industry.
Odd choice but let’s start there and with actionable items. We get rid of consumer choice and advertising. Presumably we’ve now reduced potato production to the exact demand required for chips. So they’re not wasted.
How does that help anybody?
Are we reallocating that farmland to a more productive crop? Who’s in charge of that? How is it managed? I’m told anarchy is the fix but I don’t see how anarchy tackles this specific potato chip issue.
And under what system do we have zero waste potato production?
Anarchism.
If you don’t want to learn about it from memes, go do some hard reading. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
“I’m twelve and this is deep” kind of take.
“I’m a dumbarse and don’t know what anarchism is” kind of take.
It’s liberal libertarianism.
I know what anarchism is, mate. That’s precisely why I find it hilarious that people are non-ironically thinking about it as a solution to any of the world’s problems.
I mean, if you’re pining for a utopia, might as well go for a full blown post-scarcity communism - equally childish, equally impossible.
Isn’t anarchism just “only local government”? Not sure how that helps anything.
Anarchism is many local groups, co-operating with each other as a larger whole. It’s basically the Fediverse concept.
So local government? The Fediverse is based on computer software and servers. It’s not analogous to local government.
No. Small adhoc networks of people.
You are right, it is not analogous to local government - but surprise surprise the people who advocate for the destruction of the state don’t want an analogy to the thing they want to abolish.
Go look up self-governance, and how it is applied in places such as the Chiapas and Rojava today.
See how easy it would have been to start there?
There are vacant homes so if there was anarchy… People would identify and relocate to those vacant homes… By some means.
Or “if it wasn’t for this damned government, I wouldn’t be throwing away carrot skins and old leftovers, I’d be making vegetable stock and unregulated penicillin with them”.
More like if it wasn’t for this system, we wouldn’t be wasting 300,000 potatoes to make packets of chips that went into the bin when they didn’t sell compared to the more advertised brand.
More like if it wasn’t for this system, my toaster wouldn’t conveniently break 2 weeks out of warranty, and I would have a right to repair it myself.
More like if it wasn’t for this system this empty house with squatters wouldn’t be evicted and left empty again.
Okay so we’re going to overlook the waist created by 350 million consumers disposing of unconsumed food products and focus on 150,000 lb more or less of product produced by the potato chip industry.
Odd choice but let’s start there and with actionable items. We get rid of consumer choice and advertising. Presumably we’ve now reduced potato production to the exact demand required for chips. So they’re not wasted.
How does that help anybody?
Are we reallocating that farmland to a more productive crop? Who’s in charge of that? How is it managed? I’m told anarchy is the fix but I don’t see how anarchy tackles this specific potato chip issue.
And under what system do we have zero waste potato production?