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Originally Posted by Zeraph
But what do you think would happen to the progress of technology? I take it you consider anarchy more important than (academic/tech) progress? Cause there's no way we could have NASA or other such super specialized research agencies. We'd lose medicine and all sorts of nice progress eventually as it faded from memory. Which means we doom ourselves at some point in the future. Even if we continued in anarchy for millions of years eventually our planet and sun are going to die out. Without the progress of our current systems we'd have no chance of making it to the stars and becoming a semi immortal race (spreading ourselves so far that one branch or another of humanity would survive).
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. I use Linux, which was written by people around the world for fun an something to do. It works great.
I would work for NASA, even if I wasn't getting paid. I would love to launch satellites, design space telescopes, or build rovers.
The closest working example of an Anarchist society I would say are the Amish. They are self-sufficient, have a few rules they follow because it's the right thing to do, and don't buy many corporate made products. They do need a lot of land, and I think if they used electricity and reduced the religious influence their lifestyle wouldn't be half bad.