101a96 No.279
I'm a college student, soon to make the transition from family-assisted living to independence. I'm entering a world of expensive mandatory health insurance, business licensing, income and property tax, asset seizure, audits, and other forms of state interference.
I've been a philosophical AnCap/Agorist for a good while now. I'm a highly cerebral person with a crippling case of inaction. I understand the ethics and the economics, but I want to apply it. I actually want out. I want to opt out of this oppressive bullshit and take control of my own financial future. I've worked proper jobs, for years at a time. I can play the game, but it disgusts me. I want to be a self-owned, self-sufficient, real goddamn human being.
So I turn to you, my fellow AnCaps. We can talk until the embers of civilization die, but what can I actually DO, right NOW, to start building a life outside the state? We need actionable plans, lists of suggestions, communities of like-minded individuals we can turn to for guidance. Entering the world was hard enough when you had the social support of the people around me, but I'm the only anarchist I know, and all that guidance is gone.
Lets blaze a trail out of the state. I think I can even try and put together a blog to help other seekers find their way out. Help me, /ancap/. You're my only hope.
a60748 No.286
Ideas:
- Find and utilize pay-per-service doctors (who don't take medicare, or even insurance), prices are about 1/2 regular and they are more freedom-minded than most.
Pull a Jeff Burwick(sp) (Anarchast) and travel so much that no one country considers you a taxable resident.
Build up quality relationships so that you can rely on them instead of turning to the state for assistance.
Join or create a DRO-like organization (DRO = Dispute resolution organization, see S. Molyneux for more on this) to find like-minded people to deal with, and cut down on the fear and costs of potential legal action.
- Grow your own food and/or support local farmers.
- Get any emotional/mental health issues resolved as best you can, so that you are a good representative for an-cap ideas. To talk about a thing while not living it in a healthy manner is to do a disservice to that thing (I am speaking generally here, not to you specifically).
101a96 No.287
So here's what I have so far:
Keeping my assets in cryptocurrency of some kind seems like a given. The state can't freeze an account that they don't control.
So then, the question is how to get into the underground crypto job market? (If there is one. If not: opportunity?) At this point is it really all Piratebay-type internet sales? Is there another viable avenue for underground earnings for skilled people?
A fundamental question would be where and how to live? It must be hard to rent in bitcoin, and even harder to buy. I don't intend to squat in a field somewhere. Where does a savvy dissident find shelter? So far, truck campers are looking like the most viable option, but this seems like an area with lots of room for improvement.
I know Bitnation and UnSystem are doing great work with blockchain-hosted smart contracts. Has anyone heard of viable alternatives to insurance and the like in this kind of free market?
Transportation is pretty heavily regulated, but I see ways around it perhaps in the form of bus passes and ride sharing services. Private automobile ownership is relatively rare in a number of dense cities; it seems reasonable enough that one could get by fine without a car.
There are lots more questions to be asked, but we've got to start finding or making answers to these ones in order to make Agorism appealing for the average Joe.
101a96 No.288
>>286Love it! This is a great start, thanks!
Keep 'em coming, folks!
a60748 No.289
>>287In some places super-small houses are not taxed as residences (eg. something you can build on a trailer and move at will), or maybe a motorhome?
If you want to go hardcore and try to avoid licenses, registrations, statutes, etc. you could check out freemen-on-the-land (Robert Menard for example), though this requires a great deal of self-knowledge, integrity, and stamina, definitely not for the average person, though interesting to check out IMO. In the US see also the 1215.org guy, with similar conditions plus a knowledge of law..
101a96 No.291
>>289The tiny house movement looks like a very attractive option. I'm actually keen on that even without the regulatory shenanigans. Well spotted, though!
I've looked a lot into the FotL thing, and while I find that they have a lot of useful material to offer, I'd like to try to avoid it as much as possible. It might be worth considering hiring yourself out as a freeman advocate to help other people.
An interesting meeting point of your two suggestions is that I've seen the Freemen talk about land patents, which presumably are a way to successfully get around property tax for your plot of land.
a60748 No.294
I wouldn't want to hire myself out as a FoTL anything without first achieving the status, would be quite risky legal-wise I would think..
The land patent think isn't technically a patent, its a claim of right/homesteading thing that gives complete control over the land as I understand it. IIRC it was used in New Zealand by a tribe to gain total ownership over their land (and elsewhere as well), so quite applicable if one has the will to carry it out.
That said, if a tribe of natives can do it a tribe of ancaps could probably do it as well, assuming the will and integrity (again, extreme levels needed to do it right, not for everyone by a long shot)
101a96 No.296
>>294You're right. In fact, that seems like an opportunity. A person or group with the means and the will to buy a plot of land and obtain a land patent could offer all kinds of things to people like us, and the first one to do it will make a killing.
The more I look into this, the more it seems that this is so fresh that the common man won't have a place in it until entrepreneurs carve one out for them. No comfy option for me just yet.
101a96 No.309
We've got some great suggestions so far, but I think a good place to focus on for the time being would be earning money. Is there any realistic structure in place to work for cryptocurrency that doesn't involve online sales or software development?