QOTW: What Does Sovereignty Actually Look Like? Distributed Manufacturing!
I will not go into things like Sovereign Man on the Land, and other legal disputes. Even thought they are legally correct, very few Govern-cement Thugs know the actual rules, and so, they are mute. People actually believe what they are told about the system, the police officers too.
What i feel as sovereignty is the ability to walk away from the system, and to really, and truly, not need the system.
If you need nothing the system provides, then the system has no hold over you, and that is sovereignty.
And, what most people are missing from their freedom self autonomy is consumer goods. Now, if i was stuck in an end of civilization setting, i could build all the modern appliances. They are quite easy/simple machines. However, most people do not comprehend what is going on inside them; the manufacturers make them as impossible to work on as possible, so you have to call their service techs.
Now, if we break down the appliance into simple pieces, and make CNC machinery and plans for building each piece, then we could get normal people to build the parts of appliances in their garages. And if we get a bunch of people to make all the parts, then we could assemble appliances locally.
And this is my path toward sovereignty.
Building the pieces.
Every piece is actually quite simple. Even the electronics. And, broken down to this level, almost anyone can learn to make each piece.
Unfortunately, most pieces are not something you can just 3D print, however, with a CNC mill, most of the pieces can be simply machined.
After we get a person set up to make each piece, then we get a computer system to match up people who need parts (assemblers) and people who make parts (manufacturers). And this can scale, with more people joining and providing and building a network of suppliers and users.
Assembling the pieces
Now, not everyone can put together a washing machine or a refrigerator, but many can. All those men in the 60s who could work on their own cars could be trained to assemble appliances.
So, we will see some people assemble their own appliance, but many people will look for someone local to assemble what they need.
We get these people into computer system, and we have all the pieces for someone, who knows nothing, to come and ask for an appliance to be assembled for them.
Further, if we have enough of the pieces, the exterior box is not needed to be standard. It just has to hold all the parts in their proper places.
Like, a fridge can be any color you can imagine. The shelves, even the box can be tailored to what is really wanted.
Many people will take assembling an appliance to art form.
When you have so many suppliers, you can't be stopped
The system loves to make an example of someone in order to get them to stop. However, if we had hundreds of part suppliers, the system is really incapable of doing much to it. Especially since no one is actually doing anything wrong.
The system loves to regulate everyone from ever competing with them. Rots-child said that competition is a sin. And, so they use the state apparatus to make it almost impossible to compete. And then the make economies of scale such that no other corporation startup can compete with them.
However, they have one really big problem. Their amount sold cannot go beneath a certain number, else they start losing money and will go out of business. They can't make one at a time.
A person making parts in their garage, with paid off machinery, can make zero parts. There overhead is practically nothing. So, economically, they cannot be forced out of business.
With many, many suppliers, the state would be pretty much powerless to do anything.
So, if we could make refrigerators in our garages, we would have a great deal more freedom than we have now where we have only the choice of crappy refrigerator A or crappy refrigerator B.
I believe there is a lot of profit in each refrigerator, since they are shipped half way around the world, and then sold by a retailer at at least 30% markup.
With a system that makes a refrigerator only after it has been ordered, so much of the costs involved in manufacturing can be avoided. We can have so much more efficient of a system. We can make so much more durable and long lasting appliances, because we are not tied to producing so many every year. We won't even think about planned obsolescence.
So, not only will distributed manufacturing bring us better products, and more local people having a good job (or side hustle), it saves so much pollution from being made.
This is truly a path towards sovereignty.