Defines a government’s proper purpose as expanding citizens’ personal possibilities, arguing that restrictions framed as being for your own good or the collective benefit are a scam and that rights should never be traded for access.
Claims Europeans wrongly equate democratic elections with trustworthy government, and should adopt the Russians’ lifelong skepticism, treating rulers as hired managers limited to basic services rather than society architects.
Argues that legal marriage is an inflexible all-or-nothing contract and should be replaced by customizable modular trust agreements that delegate specific rights, duties, and guardianship case by case with minimal state involvement.
UBI is a terrible idea unless it is absolutely unconditional – same sum for every citizen with no behavioral conditions – because the moment survival money depends on behavior it becomes a universal control mechanism. Here I show that universal and unconditional – would be very hard in practice.