Marakesh 𓅦 on Nostr: On "Government-as-a-Service" I'm sure I heard or read that term somewhere, but don't ...

On "Government-as-a-Service" I'm sure I heard or read that term somewhere, but don't recall where. I read a book by Spencer Heath called
that advocated this idea, although I don't believe it used that term. One quote from it states that the author foresaw "the emergence of a general public-services industry producing and administering public community services of all kinds voluntarily and contractually, for-profit, without recourse to taxation" (p. 15)

And again: "Based on his observations of our incomplete yet rapidly evolving society, Heath predicted that we would outgrow government as we know it in favor of the voluntary, contractual provision of all public services in the foreseeable future. With the demise of taxation, he foresaw world peace..." (p. 16).

One more: "We have the golden rule, which is commanded of us, that we should love one another by serving one another and doing it impersonally—in ways that take in everybody. And we have the iron rule, which puts some men in authority over others. It makes those others slaves to some degree through chattel slavery, tax slavery, tribute slavery, regulation, or whatever kinds of slavery are imposed by external authority upon the would-be free spirits of men" (p. 43).

The Free Private Cities project is actively working to establish places to live around the world along these lines, independent of governments, where residents pay for their protection services contractually and voluntarily.
https://youtu.be/5ft_J4KNcKc?si=AYaK_O7ln8fuXIP8