Someone asked me to give examples of how someone can create significant change without voting. This was my response:
The government is a series of monopolies
monopoly on currency, on roads, on education, on police etc...and where they don't have monopolies they create cartels through over regulating certain industries, as we see with media and the medical industry, for example.
I dont see these monopolies being decentralized through the political process. There are no candidates that will even address this underlying truth of government, and even if one did, there is very little chance that they would be able to do something about it while getting into office.
On the other hand, if we compete with these monopolies by creating our own businesses or charities that can provide services better and more efficiently, we can make each aspect of government obsolete piece by piece.
I think there are a few real life examples to point to.
One example I often point to is the media. Years ago, government had a tight control of the media through their regulations, and corporations also played a role by controlling the message through advertising revenue.
However, over the past few decades people in the alternative media have worked to break that monopoly, and i think they are on their way to doing so successfully...and will eventually make the mainstream media obsolete.
There is also the example of bitcoin, which is now the most valuable currency in the world. central banks, and the federal reserve have released papers suggesting that their institutions would fall apart if cryptocurrencies continue to reach the mainstream and come into widespread use
We can also look to what Nexus has been doing with attempting to free people from internet service providers.
For those who are not familiar with the term “agorism,” it is a strategy of noncompliance that uses counter-economics and underground markets as a way of keeping power in the hands of the average people, thus slowly diminishing the power and relevance of the control structure.
Growing food, starting mutual aid or charity groups, using bitcoin, homeschooling, running a small business without licenses, bartering and starting community currencies are all examples of agorist activities. Some agorists are even so bold as to create businesses that will challenge existing state monopolies like we are seeing in New York with alternative protection agencies and arbitration services.
It is as simple as finding a need in your community for a particular good or service, and attempting to provide that value without any sort of interaction with the government or any other unchosen 3rd parties. In other words, the basic idea is to try solving the problem yourself, with your community instead of waiting around for a politician to promise to fix it and, in turn, making the problem worse.
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