I like that you mentioned multiplier effects... but it's "quaint" to believe that our two heads have to be in physical proximity to each other. Right now your head is in Iowa and my head is in California. Yet... here we are putting our heads together. Our two heads are better than one even though our heads are many miles apart.
What we can't do in this virtual space is spend. We can vote (rep)... but we can't spend. Does it make a difference that we can't spend? Well... it means that this virtual space isn't a market. Which is a problem because markets utilize infinitely more information than the alternative systems.
Imagine that every member on this forum was stranded together on an island. We could talk with each other... and rep each other... but we couldn't trade with each other. Would this be a good system? Of course not... it would be infinitely better if we could trade with each other. It would be infinitely better if we had a market on the island rather than a democracy.
It should be pretty straightforward that larger markets are better than smaller markets. No matter how large a physical market you created with libertarians... you could always create a larger virtual market.
Here are two way to turn this virtual space into a market...
1. Facilitate micropayments...
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2. Crowdfund advertisements. Right now the banner ad immediately above me says, "Building Futures... Medical Assistant". It's a stupid ad because it's entirely irrelevant to my preferences. Also... I'm guessing that these ads are the reason why this website utilizes so much of my computers resources. I just started writing this on another forum and, as a result, the resource usage plummeted.
Anyways, imagine if there was a page on this forum with links. I could paypal Bryan $5 dollars and he would add a link to my blog to the page. You could paypal Bryan $6 dollars and he would place a link to your blog above the link to my blog. If I received enough traffic from this website... then I would send Bryan another $5 dollars and he would place my link above your link. If somebody preferred your blog... then they could paypal Bryan and say, "Here's $5 dollars... add it to IDefendThePlatform's link."
The top 5 or so most funded links would be displayed on this website's homepage. Can you guess which links they would be? Why would you want to settle for guessing rather than knowing? Wouldn't you want to know which websites are the most valuable to the liberty movement? How could this information not be important?
All the liberty movement needs to do in order to win is to do a better job of accessing and utilizing the available information. Members of the liberty movement really don't need to be in the same general physical space in order to accomplish this. Thank goodness! All we need to do is to turn this virtual space into a market.
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