Good luck. I consider myself to be a pragmatic idealist: Winning isn't
everything, but failure isn't anything. I suppose I could tear down the
entire sociopolitical structure of the world if I really had to, but it just
seems easier to redesign the economy along more efficient lines - design an
economy that is to capitalism what capitalism is to communism. I suppose with
a bit of an effort you could direct everyone's enormous frustration with
modern society towards the greed and indifference of... who, exactly?
Certainly your meme has better survival potential than my elaborate redesigns.
But my elaborate redesigns do not require memetic attractiveness, only a base
population of early adopters.
There are also multiple and beneficial streamline-and-transparency changes to
government that would get piggybacked onto #4 and even complex barter. I
think governmental changes have a better chance if they aren't strictly
political issues. Challenge the government and you create an enormous public
conflict; quietly obsolete a few parts through technology, and the bureaucrats
stand alone.
-- sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you everything I think I know.