Which is about as effective as what we do now.

Can you give an example?

Most people are pretty conflict averse and of course don’t like to get their friends in trouble.

Anarchism would function much better if people learned to communicate in a healthy way. There are some very helpful systems that focus on interpersonal relationships, communication, and decision making. Not to mention that we can all benefit from improving our own mental health.

This does not mean that we have to “become better people” before anarchy is tenable. On the contrary, I think that anarchist principles can move us all toward having more of what we need and fewer stressors.

But we will all need to learn some things that most of us weren’t taught growing up.

This is essentially the same question that has to be answered with any roommate situation.

How have you worked it out with your housemates in the past? I’m guessing you have some sort of communication and agreement about who does what when.

Some households rely on traditional gender roles. Some groups come up with a system based on seniority. Some people have no idea how to have those discussions and are chronically frustrated.

Fortunately, there are methods (like Fair Play) designed to help groups work out how household tasks get done. Larger communities would use some similar method.

Thank you!

I agree. College can be a wonderful experience and a good acceptable excuse to leave home, but it may not be worth getting into a lot of debt. Even with a degree there’s no guarantee that you will find a job that pays well enough to justify the expense. You might or you might not. It’s a risk.

If you want to find like minded people, make sure you really try in your area first. Try Meetup or Facebook, or search to see if national or international organizations have a local chapter. Even if where you live seems very culturally different from what you want, you may be surprised how many people near you are interested in the same things you are.

Also, consider opportunities to join non-profit programs that don’t require a degree. If you’re into permaculture, you might try the WOOF program or similar.

Once you have a better idea of what you want, you may find that a specific degree is a good idea. You can go to college then.

I’ve only seen that available in German

I can’t find that series. Can you give the author? Is it available in English?

Try Cory Doctorow. I like Walkaway and Little Brother. Also Becky Chambers. Psalm for the Wildbuilt and its sequel.

I’ve never thought of this. I preserve my meadow by mowing early each spring and leaving it until the flowers go to seed. I’d actually like to have more trees, but they seem to only want to grow near the buildings. The few times I’ve tried to protect what I thought were young trees, either they turned out to be thorn bushes or they died quickly. Whats the trick? I’m in north Texas, zone 8b.

Good for you! Mine never even sprout!

How do you know it won’t scale? Have you tried it? What obstacles did you encounter? Have you talked to experts to see if those problems have established solutions? Also, how bad are the problems? Are they worse than the problems we experience under the current system? Do you have a better idea than anarchism? How does your idea work?

Sounds like a beautiful property! Also, if the land is organic, I wouldn’t think it really needed regenerative farming. Someone with less skill could probably still get quite a lot of sustenance from it.

Tesla’s quality is inconsistent, which is also the case for most manufacturers. I’ve seen Teslas that are absolute trash and some that are actually pretty well built.

I don’t blame you for avoiding them. Some have big issues. But I also get why some people like them. They have some significant advantages over most other EVs.

I agree. I don’t know about you, but most anarchists I’ve encountered ARE radically inclusive. I get the impression that it’s the libertarians who think everyone should be able to meet their own needs without help. That’s not what anarchy is about.

Anarchy is not anti- cooperation. It’s just anti-hierarchy. Have you ever thought that your workplace would serve the customers a lot better if upper management would stop making stupid rules that don’t help? Your co-workers are probably capable of doing what needs to be done without a lot of micromanagement.

As long as you agree to some kind of egalitarian decision-making system, you would be practicing a form of anarchy. It’s capable of being at least as complex and efficient as the corporate dictatorship you probably suffer under now.

You don’t have to give up supply chains, research and development, or anything else that’s actually needed. You just get rid of the bosses who mostly just take the profits and get in the way.

I imagine the production of medicines to be taken over by the workers themselves. The system can stay pretty much in place, we just stop letting the owner class dictate how things are done, and stop letting them pay themselves out of our pockets to do so. The workers can use collective decision-making to keep production in line with consumer needs. The same applies to all current systems. If you get rid of the profit motive and the hierarchical nature of corporations, the workers can focus on meeting the needs of their consumer base much more efficiently.

Agree!!

I’ve always thought that Paul appropriated the early church and turned into the strict hierarchical structure is has today.

I get where you’re coming from.

But this kind of thought experiment only reveals what people think “human nature” is. But since how humans actually tick is something that is actively being studied and discovered, I don’t find armchair exercises like this very interesting.

Even with our increasingly sophisticated understanding of psychology there is no simple answer to this question because people are incredibly complex and diverse.

How much we care about the opinions of others changes over time and according to circumstances. Also, many of the things that people imagine they would do if there were no consequences tend to be things that are socially forbidden, but not actually harmful.

All that is to say, the answers people give are going to say a lot about them, and not much about anything else. Maybe that’s what you’re interested in.

Of you want livestock, I wouldn’t think over grazed land would be a good investment. It needs time and some help to recover the soil.

How do you get the seeds to sprout? I’ve tried several times and never had one look close to sprouting.

Yes! And of course that this applies also to “natural” forms of hierarchy like parenthood. In anarchy, children (and other developing or dependent people) are given as much autonomy and authority as possible and included in all decisions that affect them.

OP is going to see the Musical Chicago. I think a suit is more appropriate for that.

Yes! It’s a true luxury to have custom clothing. I wish you could afford to do this all day!