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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

100%. Demand transparency. That’s step one. Then we need to highly organize in a decentralized system that we build separate from government. Once we are assembled we go after one thing together: Corruption in the systems that govern over our lives.

See if this jives with you. Our article about using the tyranny of the masses to demand transparency.

Let’s become problem solvers together: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/demanding-transparency-our-systems

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bill wolfe's avatar

Do your rational anti-secrecy and transparency objectives apply to the private sector and corporations? Or only government?

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

Only government for laws.

However, in the free market we purposely choose to spend our money with the companies who are most transparent and thus trustworthy.

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lance arrowood's avatar

Free markets, the fantasy never ends.

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

What fantasy? That one exists now? Or that one could exist with truly decentralized law making? Let’s discuss. It’s nuanced.

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Society's Stinky Parts's avatar

Why does every Puritan shlub with a storefront have some shitty myth about why people should or could feel good about being slaves, as if any of that changed the emergent properties of a wage system or private property?

https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/the-social-architecture-of-capitalism/

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AJF's avatar

Absolutely

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