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David Stasavage calls “early democracy,” resembling the councils and assemblies of hereditary chiefdoms.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
They tend to become ineffective, sclerotic, and easily co-opted by the powerful and wealthy. They are vulnerable to militarization, as James Madison noted long ago.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Metagovernance Project,
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
He believed that information wants to be free, that ideas don’t belong to the people who created them, and that it is wrong to lock data behind walls and charge money for entrance.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
amazon.com
Make it a public utility, and it will move overseas.
George Gilder • Life After Google
Build the Activist Bloomberg! A Wiki Project
Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
As long as governance is reducible to economics, it will be difficult to prevent the feedback loops between wealth and power from spiraling into plutocratic outcomes.