Every day, when I browse through the news portals, it makes me sick. Whether in Germany, where politicians waste 250 million on clearly illegal measures like the EU non-compliant truck toll, and taxpayers have to foot the bill, or where heating regulations impose nonsensical and sometimes unattainable requirements on old buildings, or where 700 million is spent to extend a war that no reasonable person wants – who can still identify with the actions of our rulers?
But here in Canada, it's the same: Trudeau freezes the accounts of peaceful protesters, no longer allows the free press in press conferences, and burdens citizens and businesses with climate levies that only beautify wasteful spending policies.
Or in the USA: which rational person would support the use of cluster bombs?
This list could be compiled for every country.
Sure, everyone has their own list: for example, while I consider the shutdown of German nuclear power plants to be the biggest nonsense of the decade, someone else may welcome the move. But the crucial point is that no politician in any country (except for Switzerland, perhaps, on individual issues) consults their citizens anymore. Even if we look at the support politicians get in elections, they don't have a true mandate there either. Let's take Canada's last election, for example: voter turnout was around 50%. Trudeau only received about 30 percent of the votes – meaning only 15 percent of Canadians actually support the policies of the self-proclaimed autocrat Prime Minister. In today's digital world, national borders are already obsolete – we communicate worldwide with like-minded people in all time zones. The new measure of belonging is the alignment of interests and goals, not residing in a nation-state. Let's take the Defichain community, for example: like-minded people with common goals are distributed worldwide (although Africa and Australia are still underrepresented).
We have a common budget (Community-Fund) over which we decide together. We also have a tax (namely inflation through the issuance of new DFIs, which theoretically reduces the value of each DFI held by our community members block by block – at least in theory), which we have also defined ourselves. We have regional meetings (Tentacelsclub).
The same is possible with ethical and economic goals, with governance tokens for voting, with taxes, and a social support system for members. The technology is there; we just need to think about the technical possibilities: a community of like-minded individuals living not in a single country but distributed worldwide, forming a web3-based digital society with cultural events, political discussions on goals, and social engagement.
Of course, global acceptance is not yet fully there, but for "perpetual travelers," it is already imaginable today.
Let's hope that on-chain governance from the web will be adapted to our real lives. Then, politics could be made for the people again.