SimpleX chat is an uncensored quantum e2e messaging and groups application like telegram but decentralized. I've created a group for anyone who wants to talk about Agorism findable on the official simplex directory.

Link to join the group Agorism: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2Fhpq7_4gGJiilmz5Rf-CswuU5kZGkm_zOIooSw6yALRg%3D%40smp5.simplex.im%2FZQrSMW0JL0JkwAd-8LqVPWNCNprS0EAa%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-3%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEA7KNc0ncYWn_WJLwFT0_TRpbBa9DxjeUbCTXAzuKjAD4%253D%26srv%3Djjbyvoemxysm7qxap7m5d5m35jzv5qq6gnlv7s4rsn7tdwwmuqciwpid.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22WWHrpi-Bc5y3BaIos_k7gQ%3D%3D%22%7D

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We've all seen this. Why are white markets in the "moral" category? Isn't the presence of a state indicative of coercion taking place? "Taxed goods"? How is this moral? Maybe we could edit the table so that there is no longer a white and pink market but rather just a pink market or just a white market, but which is not organized into a table. IDK, what's your solution?

Anyone have archived versions of these so I can read them?

Asking for myself, but assuming I already understand the basics of agorism, what book should I read if you could only pick one or two? Looking for something stimulating/inspiring without getting too bogged down in economic jargon. On a secondary note, what’s the difference between all of SEK III’s books?

So currently I see Agorism as a strategy to reach a stateless society, but Ancaps want that too. Is there a difference between what Agorists and Ancapists seek as the endgame?

EDIT: The difference from what I can tell is that Agorism is free market anarchist, while ancapism is anarchist capitalist (obviously). The difference is subtle but nonetheless notable.

I have been a fan of Agorism for quite a while. I recently started learning about this thing called Monero and have began using it for buying things I might not be able to with cash and avoiding any tax or government oversight. I wanted to tell you all about this as a tool in your arsenal for subverting the govts control.

Monero, unlike almost every cryptocurrency, is private, meaning that all transactions and amounts are hidden from anyone else trying to look at them. This means a few things:

1. Monero cannot be traced. The government or anyone else has no idea if you have Monero or where you've spent it or received it from except you.

2. Monero is untaxable. Because the government cannot trace transactions, they cannot know what you are buying, for how much, or see your balance and therefore cannot tax you on it.

3. Monero can be used to buy things that are illegal. Because Monero is the only reputable private cryptocurrency, many darknet markets have switched from using Bitcoin to now only using Monero. For any goods that aren't let's say legally kosher, Monero is how you can ensure that government never sees where your money is going.

4. Monero is not subject to any central authority. Monero has no CEO, no President, and nobody makes decisions about how Monero can be spent. All the code behind Monero is open source and can be viewed at any time to ensure nothing malicious is happening. It's all open.

5. Monero is cheap. Monero is currently only valued at around 160 at the time of writing this, whereas Bitcoin which is essentially useless, traceable, and slow, is worth 80000. Buying BTC is buying high, buying Monero is buying very, very low in my opinion. Almost nobody has woken up to the value of privacy yet.

6. Monero doesn't inflate arbitrarily. Monero has a hard coded inflation rate of less than 1% (which slowly decreases) each year compared with the US Dollar, which inflated 8% in 2022 and 4% in 2023, with 40% of all USD being printed in the last 12 months (0.8% of all Monero has been mined in the last 12 months).

7. Monero is decentralized. Monero is kept up by nodes that can be run by anyone using a computer and are run by people all across the world. These nodes process transactions. To get rid of Monero, the government or governments would have to locate (already virtually impossible) all of these nodes on every continent on Earth, and eradicate every one of them (Currently estimated 5000 nodes on Earth and that number grows every day).

I suspect the Agorism community will be receptive to this kind of thing, as it aligns surprisingly well with counter-economics.

is it progressive?

I understand agorists are traditionally against voting or using the electorate as an effective form of systemic change, but you can also make the argument that there are still benefits to participating within a political party even without voting or being the largest bloc of the party (ex., The DSA, YAL, Mises Caucus, No Labels, etc). Are any of you members to a political party and do you think involvement in a party could help spread your ideas?