Originally Posted by Skybird

Statelessness, a million small, minimalistic communities is the answer to make both evils smaller in size and bring them down to a scale where you can actually avoid them, battle them, control them. Only then local politicians cannot claim the power and control over nations and continents, only then monopolistic producers or power holders can be avoided by moving just some miles away into another city where they handle things differently. And that means cities, local regions must be independent form any central governance, to be free to do it like they want. If they all are part of the same nation and government, then nothing changes, and you have no chance to evade that government.