Damus
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Open Markets Foundation https://openmarkets.pub ## Mission The Open Markets Foundation exists to advance decentralized commerce by supporting open, interoperable, and permissionless marketplaces bui...
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i was looking into passports after reading this mission statement just realized something.

this vision is technically a threat to all centralized governments.

to put in popular culture terms, its like a scene out of the one piece anime, where the sniper sets flag of the world government on fire as a declaration of war against the world government.

which then led me down the rabbit hole of, what does it mean to be a stateless citizen of no nation.

if you think about it, we have all chosen to be slaves to a country/government. The internet has become an open sea, and those of us that understand it, have decided to set sail. but the question is how to be a stateless soveriegn citizen of no country?

not sure how to research this because i am only accustomed to using centralized resources, both digital and organic (meaning human), which naturally discourage any kind of freedom that doesn't rely on the centralized entities. The wise move would be to ask someone who has experience in being a soveriegn stateless citizen of no nation.

but i digress.

My point is, collaboration is good, but the section describing your "purpose" still sounds like centralization. and once things become standard and centralized, governments can start attacking choke points and stealing what you built. Governments don't build, they steal;
freedom with laws
money with taxes
and privacy with claims of safety and security.

i think a more decentralized approach would be teaching people how to start a foundation like you have done.

yes, that means potentially more competition, but it also means more opportunities for collaboration.