Hey they have three more wishes, give them a second

Ffs, it doesn’t matter whether they’re good, evil, or somewhere in between. It doesn’t matter why they’re prone to violence. The fact that they’re willing and capable means all other must be ready to fight.

In reality such dynamics are currently playing out and they have played out from the beginning of time. Our current world is a product of this process. This is like, game theory or something. It’s like you’re trying to tell me 2+2 doesn’t equal 4 because we don’t really know if there are two twos or some nonsense.

I think we need to go back to the beginning.

We have 9 peaceful tribes/societies/states/whatever. They’re happy to just live within their means and cooperate with each other when needed. In a vacuum, this will continue indefinitely because why fight when you don’t need much and can share?

Now, the asshole tribe moves into the region. They’re greedy, their population is outgrowing their resources because they’re using all they have, furthermore they have few qualms about taking their neighbors’ stuff.

The existence of this tribe forces all the others to arm themselves and maintain some sort of military. The only possible way a peaceful existence will be restored is if the troublemaker is removed. However even that isn’t guaranteed to work now that all have militaries and nothing to do with them.

I feel like you were describing various scenarios the previous paragraph could play out, but ultimately the existence of the violent tribe forces the cooperative tribes to defend themselves or perish.

Yeah but why is the asshole afraid? The peaceful groups armed themselves. Once everybody is armed how do you disarm?

No… everything you described falls under “behave like that one asshole”

I’m fairly certain everything you wrote is perfectly consistent with my original statement.

Could greener, more altruistic network states co-exist with money and power hungry billionaire-led communities?

Not peacefully, that’s for sure. I think that touches on a problem humans have always had. Imagine 10 separate societies existed. If only one was a warmonger, while the other nine sought peace, then all ten need to behave like that one asshole or they’ll be conquered eventually.

That’s why I don’t see how peaceful, green societies could live alongside rapicious capitalist monarchies. Actually I’m pretty sure that played out a couple times already, and that’s why things are the way they are.

What kind of political/state environment would these network states exist within, if any? That could allow for different types of relations between network states, but coexistence between states with such different goals seems difficult.

Well it was more like a greenhouse in function. It became quite hot after the sun came out.

Four different cooking techniques were tested, namely hard-boiling, soft-boiling, sous vide or 6X °C and periodic cooking. Hard-boiled eggs were placed in boiling water for 12 min; soft-boiled eggs were placed in boiling water for 6 minutes; sous vide eggs were placed in water at 65 °C for 1 h and periodic eggs were placed alternatively in boiling water (Th = 100 °C) for th = 2 min and water at Tc = 30 °C for tc = 2 min, for a total cooking time of 32 minutes, which corresponds to the repetition of the hot and cold cycles for a total of N = 8 times. In the case of periodic eggs, a bowl filled with water kept at 30 °C was used for the cold cooking cycle.

My dad put their cage in our sunroom during the night because they were making too much noise. Eventually the sun came out.

I feel like few people would actually consent to this new system if they knew what it was and how it worked. So how do these guys plan on forcing their post-democratic system on us?