I also had thoughts along these lines. I think that to make your idea complete you need the combination of local governments and a world government. The local governments will provide people the freedom to organize in the way they find best and produce a process of evolution as you describe. The world government will enforce cooperation between local governments in Prisoner Dilemma type situations and ensure the local governments don’t lock people in. See also the Archipelago.
Do you have ideas how to realize this in practice?
Also, could not a similar scheme work inside just one country? A central government would be responsible for all the tasks that cannot be handled by individual communities, but nothing more. This might be easier to realize than a world government, though still non-trivial.
I also had thoughts along these lines. I think that to make your idea complete you need the combination of local governments and a world government. The local governments will provide people the freedom to organize in the way they find best and produce a process of evolution as you describe. The world government will enforce cooperation between local governments in Prisoner Dilemma type situations and ensure the local governments don’t lock people in. See also the Archipelago.
Do you have ideas how to realize this in practice?
Also, could not a similar scheme work inside just one country? A central government would be responsible for all the tasks that cannot be handled by individual communities, but nothing more. This might be easier to realize than a world government, though still non-trivial.