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85 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 10 May \ on: Decentralized Shipping Protocol: The Missing Link for a Truly Free Global Market bitcoin
Interesting idea. But I wonder if shipping/import/export is a good place to introduce this type of free market.
The reason is that importing is historically among the first places that taxes were introduced, in the form of tariffs.
Why is this? Because it's one of the easiest places to "earn" tax money. Goods are coming in from afar, to a port or over a bridge, and there's a chokepoint that you can control and tax.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @klk OP 10 May
That's a good point. Interesting how ports introduce a form of centralization and it got exploited...
But maybe precisely because of that an incentive to skip ports/hubs should be introduced. For example, if the tax is 100% of the good's price, it should make economical sense to go around the port.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 10 May
I wonder if drone powered delivery would be a way to circumvent this chokepoint.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @klk OP 10 May
Certainly! Or many other ways that we can't even think about.
If the economic incentive is there, solutions will flourish.
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