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541 Who Watches the Watchers?
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If you say that a potential for corruption and abuse occurs in every human interaction, then you are faced with the rather challenging problem of setting up a society that eliminates this kind of abuse.
Under the current situation: The government takes resources from people, and every time it does this, it continually needs to pay off more and more people. The more power it gets, the more power it needs. Part of this death spiral problem occurs where money is taken from citizens and paid to people who are willing to use force on behalf of the government to collect even more resources. In this sense, the solution needs to create a scenario where people who commit violence are made to bear the full cost of this, unlike the current situation where some people are being paid to commit violence.
Market anarchists recognize the capability of humans to harm each other, and by recognizing this fundamental corruptibility; anarchists posit that competing self-interest is the best way to solve this problem. When there is a dispute between people, they have to defer this decision to a third party. The third party should have no direct financial stake and its self interest should lie in the eradication of bias, which is the solution that the DRO model brings to the problem of corruption.
Who will watch the watchers under the DRO model? The answer is those who are paid for their objectivity and whose self-interest is the abdication of specific self-interest. Under the state solution, the bias is not eliminated because the state has universal power and does not face repercussions for its actions.
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If you say that a potential for corruption and abuse occurs in every human interaction, then you are faced with the rather challenging problem of setting up a society that eliminates this kind of abuse.
Under the current situation: The government takes resources from people, and every time it does this, it continually needs to pay off more and more people. The more power it gets, the more power it needs. Part of this death spiral problem occurs where money is taken from citizens and paid to people who are willing to use force on behalf of the government to collect even more resources. In this sense, the solution needs to create a scenario where people who commit violence are made to bear the full cost of this, unlike the current situation where some people are being paid to commit violence.
Market anarchists recognize the capability of humans to harm each other, and by recognizing this fundamental corruptibility; anarchists posit that competing self-interest is the best way to solve this problem. When there is a dispute between people, they have to defer this decision to a third party. The third party should have no direct financial stake and its self interest should lie in the eradication of bias, which is the solution that the DRO model brings to the problem of corruption.
Who will watch the watchers under the DRO model? The answer is those who are paid for their objectivity and whose self-interest is the abdication of specific self-interest. Under the state solution, the bias is not eliminated because the state has universal power and does not face repercussions for its actions.
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