Project EUtopia - an alternative and anti-fragile vision of the European Union.
The world rapidly shifts towards multipolarity, both in politics and economy. In this time of global 'perestroika', the EU is facing multiple stressors that threaten the union. From the outside, the EU faces political and economic wars, from the inside - a growing pressure from member states for bigger political and economic freedoms. The system that holds the union together has reached a level of complexity where it is becoming increasingly unstable and fragile. In times of global turbulence, big complex centralized systems tend to collapse under incremental stresses and random Black Swan events.
This is exactly what we see today happening to capitalism and the status quo of global order. The stresses to the European system, that was created 80 years ago, are set to increase. Thus, the European Union, in order to withstand the turbulence needs to reform itself and become anti-fragile. In other words, it has to become decentralized and structured like the internet.
Imagine Europe as one country without national borders and national governments. Let's call it EUtopia. Instead of national governments, EUtopia has three multinational governments that represent the three sovereign and conceptually different from each other socio-economic domains. All three domains are virtual and transnational. They represent three different concepts of happiness which the citizens of EUtopia are free to choose and pursue. For example, let's call the domains 'Capitalistan', 'Socialistan' and 'Archaistan'.
From an economic perspective, these domains respectively represent 'Fast Growth Economy' (free markets), 'Slow Growth Economy' (planned) and 'Zero Growth/Conservation' (artisanal). From socio-psychological perspective Capitalistan is best suited for citizens who enjoy living fast, compete and work hard for money, Socialistan offers less monetary wealth, but more security, stability and social equality and Archaistan attracts people who reject the previous two and instead find happiness living in self-sustainable, experimental communities.
All citizens of EUtopia can freely choose their domain membership and migrate from one eco-system to another. Becoming a member of a domain is similar to signing a contract, aka subscribing to the rules, values and principles of a particular domain. A breach of the contract may result in revoking the membership. Being a member of a domain also puts you under its legal protection. The domain contracts can span from a couple years to permanent 'residency'.
Just like people of different faith in a modern society pay their membership fees to their prospective religious organizations (Christians, Muslim, Jewish, etc.), so the citizens of EUtopia respectively pay taxes to the governments of their domains. When a contract with a certain domain expires one can renew it or apply for membership in a different one. This allows membership fluidity and competition between the eco-systems.
The three smaller independent socio-economic systems within one country, instead of one big standard system, follow the thermo-dynamic principle - when one system fails, the other makes progress. In other words, domains are the 'eggs' placed in different baskets. This makes EUtopia anti-fragile.
EUtopia, with its three diverse socio-economic domains, doesn't have a central government but is overviewed by a special AI protocol. The role of the computer is to prevent any intervention of one domain into another. Put simply, Capitalism, Socialism and Polynesian archaism with open borders all under one roof.
1. Solves the major problem of democracy, aka there's no 'majority' vs. 'minority' anymore, which minimizes social tension and crime within the society.
2. The end of socio-political messianism: each domain has an opportunity to develop its maximum potential, compete for human resources and create their own version of perfect future.
3. Breaking one big system into 3 smaller systems provides robust protection against collapse, aka if one domain declines the others increase (thermodynamics).
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