Thanks for the book suggestion.
The 8 people thing is a unique idea. What if you have a family of 9 people though lol? Also if it’s anarchy then who would enforce the rules of keeping the group to only 8 people?
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jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein that may give you an idea.
Otherwise, I attended Porcfest, the libertarian Porcupine Freedom Festival, back in 2016. Although it’s labeled libertarian, most folks I talked to discussed anarchy. One of the presentations I remember asserted that 8 is the optimal number of individuals in a decision making group. In his ideal anarchy individual people would assemble in groups of 8, who would then gather their groups or reps from their groups into a higher group of 8, and so on. Effectively higher level group decisions, if needed, would be made by a council that could be traced back to any individual.
I don’t know that that’s a good plan, but it may get your mind going on how to think about the topic.
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 day ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
I have often wondered about having a voting system with a chit. Like a signed token or such and someone could assign theirs to another they trusted. It would take two tokens to get to level 2 and so on with people who get to the highest level could maybe be part of a tribunal and just below that a court of 9 and below that a congress of 81. things could be passed up and down the chain with people at levels can decide on elections to go over bills. like every level could get do you want an eletion to go over legislation this year and if over 50% of the level does not want to bother then it goes to the next level and so on till the lowest level that has enough interest to do it.
Zexks@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Why 8. That is rife for deadlocks