Josephus on Nostr: Agreed on the problem. I don't Smith was living in LA LA land though. He was ...

Agreed on the problem. I don't Smith was living in LA LA land though. He was describing the most decentralized system capable of existing at his time and how it operates. And the double edged sword that always appears when you deal with the extortionists is "how to deal with them". And the moment you start even ideatibg towards "fight them", you start getting into logistics and then armies and then, from that, the infrastructure of a new gov, which is how it has always worked throughout human history. Some govs were better than others, but almost all of them replaced a previous one for that reason.