I'm not arguing whether they will or not, I'm arguing that they should.
As a kind of moral North on my moral compass I also rely on anarchism. But there is a huge difference between knowing where the North pole is at all times, and actually living on the North pole.
That said, the collapse of the nationstate is a real possibility in the near future: Distributed and heavily encrypted communications/financial transaction methods make it possible for people to live outside of their grasp.
Everyone who puts faith in technology has lost the struggle for freedom. What freedom inside convention is about is a new and better way to relate to other humans. The tech isn't going to help us with that. If anything it will alienate us even more, and turn everything we do into an analyzable data stream. There will not be people anymore, just meat-based data streams. And data streams are something computers can control.
And I'd take private entities over public ones any day.
Not me. I would first want to know what kind of entities they are. The label "private" isn't at all enough to govern my preference.
I have far more leverage over the private ones and I can compete against them if they get too uppity.
That's just delusion.
[–] whitewomenarewhores ago
Leverage over private cooperation? Could you do me a favor and get my ISPs to stop fucking me? You will never have any power over a private entity unless we started everything from scratch tomorrow. Even then, it'll take a short minute for a private entity large enough to fuck you up the ass to be born and start fucking you up the ass. No one man can compete in every sector. You may want to step away from the Marxism.
[–] Broc_Lia ago
Well, first you'd have to get your government(s) to stop protecting them from competition.
I can't personally compete in any sector, but fortunately I'm not the only man capable of doing so.
How is free market capitalism marxist? Lol.