Network America

Networked information technologies enable people to organize solutions to the collective action problems that, in the past, could only be solved by government.

These organizations already exist in every town in America – community centers, nonprofits, churches and social clubs have many of these characteristics – but they have yet to join a national network with the capacity to collaboratively scale best practice solutions to local challenges.

The construction of a meta-network that enhances the work of community organizations supported by voluntary contributions on a national scale constitutes a decentralized social service provider that operates completely independently of the government under free market principles.

We call it Network America.

Network America couldn’t exist in any other time because our technological base wasn’t advanced enough yet the concept has existed for many years.  In fact, an organic network of non-governmental social service providers existed before America instituted the income tax in 1913.

Between the Civil War and World War One, charity hospitals, usually associated to a religious organization, provided millions of Americans with free healthcare services and similar organizations provided education services to the nation’s children.  It was only after the income tax was instituted and our money supply was centralized in the Federal Reserve Bank did the government start providing these services and, as the government and tax burden grew, the organic, emergent, locally organized charitable providers starved due to lack of resources.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *