One of these days I am going to put my vision of world government
on paper. The outline can't be as hard as the division between
capitalist and socialist makes it seem. Or the division between
anarchic and authoritarian. If you take these as four corners
of a plane, you get somewhat handy way of looking at things, but
I feel like you also need some other dimension that stands for
the size of the governable object.
What you would get with the addition of the third dimension is
a system where you can have "blobs" of anarchy defined within
a bigger area of institutional space.
X-axis: Anarchy vs Authoritarianism
Y-axis: Capitalism vs Socialism
Z-axis: Small vs Big Subject
For example, I think that anyone making less than 30 000 a year
should not pay taxes or fill any paperwork in order to be allowed
to do business. They should be allowed a fast lane through all
bureaucratic hurdles. At the same time, a big international
company doing the same business as the individual should have
all kinds of "just in case" safety mechanisms and social programs
forced upon it.
Another example. A bureaucratic body such as EU or UN should have
within it a vast array of "skunkworks", with weirdos working on
some completely impractical strangeness. These should have
well-defined feedback loops into the rigid system around them.
You have to have the tools to see the type of domain you are in,
and you have to have ways to separate the domains.
