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"Open source plays no fundamental role in anarcho-capitalism and other liberal movements" I see this all the time in the inability of the Bitcoin community to grapple with some of the thorny issues surrounding the fact that Bitcoin development is, fundamentally, an open-source project... And like any open-source project, the development winds up being sort of "anarcho-communist" in practice. We all get together, "do as each according to our ability", and arrive at a consensus on decisions. Nobody "owns" this. It's Zucotti Park in cyberspace. Bitcoin _itself_ on the other hand is the most real manifestation of an anarcho-capitalist economic system that was ever invented. Bitcoiners who don't understand this dialectic wind up getting forced into this sort of "siege mentality", who's going to "win?" idea.

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Do you know Ivan Illich? I think this man came up with theories that, when combined with ancap or voluntarism, could work very well (and not going in direction of communism) "The vernacular domain. Illich contrasts the commodified, professionalized world with the "vernacular"β€”modes of living, producing, and relating that exist outside market exchange and institutional management. Vernacular competence is learned informally, practiced in common, and adapted to local conditions. It represents the autonomous substrate of human capability that institutions systematically erode."