Reddit reviews Sovereign Individual

What I would like is irrelevant in this context.

Governments everywhere are talking up the virtues and "inevitability" of globalisation, mainly because it serves their interest. In the last 20 years there has been a bit of globalisation, and a lot of (deliberately ignored by the media) balkanisation of power, in cyberspace.

imagine if cryptocurrencies gain a stronger foothold... governments would be severely diminished by inability to steal from everyone (i.e. tax).

new communities are springing up in cyberspace, freed from the "tyranny of geography" e.g. reddit.

people are shinning "broadcasting" and traditional information sources in favour of "narrowcasting" i.e. selecting for themselves where they will seek out the truth.

cryptography, cyber privacy and such technologies are empowering the individual to protect their assets from the nanny state, hence the massive push by global spy agencies to up their game, and denegrate the whole concept of privacy as the reserve of "pedos, criminals and terrorists", ha! believe that and you'll believe anything.

empowerment of the individual will mean exactly that, and it will weaken anything that is based on centralisation and totalitarianism; that includes socialism, western welfare states, and all other flavours of collectivism.

If you're genuinely interested in this, I'd urge you to read this. You can get a used copy for peanuts.

No problem. If you want to read something closer to where some of us think things might go, you might also look at The Sovereign Individual. Like "The Road Ahead" the authors skip saying how things will Happen, but almost all of the book is about the consequences of that Happening, and from a more viewpoint Bitcoiners find more sympathetic.