As someone who's spent a long time thinking about political institutions and remains deeply skeptical of BS and his what, why, and how for the Network State...this post made me soften my perspectives on a few things.
I appreciate that you start out with a description that amounts to organizing people to take collective action to secure better terms from corporations (and possibly even governments). That's a different presentation of the idea than the typical "failure mode for western civilization" rhetoric that often gets deployed. Actually, if you read Yoni Applebaum's book, Stuck, he makes reference to a whole ecosystem of community groups (Rotary, trade unions, etc) which used to be in every major metro in the U.S. and that people relied on as they'd relocate to wherever happened to be booming economically at the time.
Again, I think the thing you're doing here that's interesting is articulating specific use cases (health insurance, affordable lodging, right of entry) that are real and tangible in a way that's often missing in these conversations.
