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"Your "proxy" idea is entirely dependent on the notion that these proxies are willing to cooperate and work within a decentralized "state" model."
The current system is based on a similar assumption: that folks will willingly live and work within a centrally planned economy and nation. For those that won't (will not readily embrace the values of the system) there is jail and/or death.
Make no mistake: I got no illusions that americans will ever take the route of self-sufficiency...the population is far too domesticated for that...but, as toad says up thread, "it sure is nice to dream".
No I expect things to tick along in the U.S. (and globally) as they have for a long time now.
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So, PH, I do get how it all works...your mistake, then, is thinkin' of my posts as advocacy instead of just musings.
Really, where (in this thread or in this forum) have you seen me advocate any changes? Sure, I play the gadfly now and again, but mostly, you'll find, I just say no, I ain't doin' 'that' when some bleedin' heart gets all righteous and says I really need to give a flip about starving old folks or freezing kids or beached whales or corporate greed or whatever the issue du jour happens to be.
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"there is no socio-economic theory that can take all the uncertainties and unknowns into account"
Sure there is: the unrestrained market (not capitalism).
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