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What are your thoughts on libertarian tech utopian structres like DAOs? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by hansolo@lemm.ee to c/asksolarpunk@slrpnk.net

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Just wondering what pro-solarpunk people think about some of the Tech "Utopian" governance structures like the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), or Network State, are.

Personally, I see them as just a cooperative/commune on a blockchain, with extra layers. But maybe I'm not understanding it right.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago

Codifying "law" to this this extend is a bad idea. Humans relations are messy and many centuries of trying to agree on common rules have shown that you always need room for individual considerations and things like debt relief etc. (jubilees in extreme cases).

Automating such things is a way to justify cruelty without taking personal responsibility for it in the best of cases, and most likely it will be used to cement the biases and privileges of those writing the code.

Or to put it in the age old wisdom of our forefathers at IBM: