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[–]happysmash27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

  • The existence of intellectual property and illegal numbers, especially in the current form. I support both heavy reform and complete abolition.

  • Property taxes which force one to make money to have somewhere to live, grow food, etc. I want to live without using money, preferably creating a gift economy, but am having trouble doing this in any existing country, hence the project I linked. This would also help with the abolition mentioned in the previous point.

  • Selective service, especially the sexist aspect of only requiring males to do it.

  • Excessive regulations stopping one from making money as a minor without relatively large startup capital.

  • Excessive regulation pushing out competition, sometimes even making monopolies.

  • Borders exist and people are forced to align with one side just because they were born there. I support voluntary association, and borders go strongly against this.

  • US citizens have to pay taxes even when in other countries, and one actually has to pay a huge sum of money to renounce citizenship.

  • US citizens are barred from many investments due to excessive regulation, such as the ICO of Blue Frontiers.

  • US federal taxes are way too complicated. To be fair, I believe people should boycott them at this point anyway.

  • US federal taxes pay for many terrible things, like the military which greatly contributes to climate change and has done many terrible and largely pointless wars.

  • The internet is still run by corporations, and people have yet to move to meshnets like the Hyperboria and Yggdrasil.

  • Many websites require using a legal name, which I prefer to avoid as I do not like my legal name at all and was never called by it anyway. Even if I legally changed it, many sites would not accept a name without a last name.

  • Censorship of the internet in schools, libraries, and authoritarian countries like China. In schools, this has greatly decreased my productivity in the past as there are often blocks even on educational websites. In libraries, this has made it hard to use most things which are not on port 80 or 443 such as SSH and IRC in a period where my father could not pay the internet bill and I used an extender to get the library Wi-Fi.

  • Climate change and collapse, which I am preparing for.

  • Terrible water quality and bad air quality. Terrible water quality has made a filter I was using need to be replaced extremely quickly.

  • Not enough green energy.

  • Somehow, there is not a single company which provides environmentally friendly shipping, nor any company I can find which sells cargo or passenger ships which run on wind and/or electricity!

  • Air travel with crazy security is terrible as well as bad for the environment.

  • The only ways to go from the Americas to Afro-Eurasia without air travel are to take the Queen Mary II from the eastern United States, to get a ride on a cargo ship, to go on someone's boat journey in a small boat, or to bring your own boat. South America is not connected to North America by road because of the Darién Gap too, making it even harder to go to/from there than in North America. How is it possible that there is this few options???

  • Not enough open source hardware exists either.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

SOOO much good stuff. Added to the lists.

Would be better for our purposes if these, and all the other great comments on this post were phrased as "Top 20 [Insert List Topic]".

I love that Hyperboria link. I'm definitely following up on that and gonna add it to the DecentralizeAllThings sub.