It’s Spreading: More Anarchists Are Fixing Potholes Because the Gov’t Won’t Do Its Job
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I applaud these two young men for taking on this problem, but the should also know that gov. stooges don't like competition! I hope they embarrass the local gov. just enough to get them to fix the roads.
The failure of the state to do its job should be desirable to anyone who sees themselves as an anarchist, as this is what anarchy looks like. Potholes. Potholes are a sign and a symptom of anarchy. Maybe they get filled, but unfilled potholes are not a sign of a powerful state. Its a sign that anarchy(or maybe something else, like foreign powers and peoples) has weakened the state, anarchy exists. Anarchists love potholes, and when bad things happen because the government failed to stop them.
I would say instead that anarchists love it when the statists are proved wrong, when failing to prevent the harms misguided statists claim the state is necessary to mitigate. I have no love for bad things happening. I don't know anyone that does.
I am glad to be proved right, but not that the bad things that prove me right occur.
But who will build the roads?!
Anybody! Literally, anybody.
In Edmonton there were some people planting flowers in potholes. I think it was to draw attention to it more than to fix it. The government really is inefficient at everything they do. Good for these guys taking things into their own hands. It's sad that they have to.
This reminds me of the stories I've read where people draw a penis around the pothole. That then forces the city to deal with it because you can't have that "awful graffiti ruining the city".
That's a new one to me. I like it.
Awesome demonstration of how government is being rendered irrelevant in every way. We don't need authority figures anymore.
Hopefully you'll all get enough media coverage to embarrass the hell out of the bureaucrats responsible for this, as well as the elected politicians who oversee and who control the purse strings.
I love this. I believe more citizens should take it upon themselves to fix small, localized problems. We don't need the govenment for everything.
I think this is a perfect example of how Steemit can be utilized by people to execute the functions of voluntary self-governance.
Many folks are trapped in the sunk cost fallacy, and these guys demonstrate that waiting for our investment in government services to bear fruit is more expensive than simply leaving such things in our dust as we go about them ourselves.
I have more than once described Steemit as a form of voluntary government, and this would be an example where Steemit can serve that purpose in an expository way.
Suppose Lang was to make a post on a Steemit community that was geographically colocated where Lang desired to fix roads. Such repairs entail costs for materials, and require labor. These costs can be supported via upvotes or donations through Steemit, and the labor voluntarily solicited and pledged in posts and comments.
I see this as an opportunity. Steemit isn't yet conveniently situated to enable such communities, nor are such populations as those geographic regions generally accounted on Steemit. Rectify those two lacks, and the potential to solve this problem not only exists, but can be duplicated in every region Steemit can reach, as well as be translated to other services.
The sky is the limit.
Oh no! This is like complete anarchy!
Watch them go to jail for it