I will definitely check out that youtube channel! I’m pretty interested in mechanism design and public-goods stuff, and I agree there are a lot of good ideas there. For instance, I am a huge fan of Georgism, so I definitely recognize that going all-in on the “libertarian individualist approach” is often not the right fit for the situation! Honestly, even though charter cities are somewhat an intrinsically libertarian concept, part of the reason I like the charter city idea is indeed the potential for experimenting with new ways to manage the commons and provide public goods—Telosa is explicitly georgist, for example, and even hyper-libertarian Prospera has some pretty interesting concepts around things like crime liability insurance, which in the USA is considered a pretty left-wing (or maybe “far-liberal”? idk...) idea for trying to reduce gun violence.
But yeah, a lot of common leftist critiques of society/capitalism/etc can feel kind of… shallow, or overly-formulaic, or confused about the incentives of a given situation, to me? So I’d like to get a better understanding of the best versions of the leftist worldview, in order to better appreciate what the common critiques are getting at.
I will definitely check out that youtube channel! I’m pretty interested in mechanism design and public-goods stuff, and I agree there are a lot of good ideas there. For instance, I am a huge fan of Georgism, so I definitely recognize that going all-in on the “libertarian individualist approach” is often not the right fit for the situation! Honestly, even though charter cities are somewhat an intrinsically libertarian concept, part of the reason I like the charter city idea is indeed the potential for experimenting with new ways to manage the commons and provide public goods—Telosa is explicitly georgist, for example, and even hyper-libertarian Prospera has some pretty interesting concepts around things like crime liability insurance, which in the USA is considered a pretty left-wing (or maybe “far-liberal”? idk...) idea for trying to reduce gun violence.
But yeah, a lot of common leftist critiques of society/capitalism/etc can feel kind of… shallow, or overly-formulaic, or confused about the incentives of a given situation, to me? So I’d like to get a better understanding of the best versions of the leftist worldview, in order to better appreciate what the common critiques are getting at.