#### Intro In Classical Liberal Theory Society is thought of as a contract between the State and the Individual. This contract supposedly gains it's legitimacy through the "consent of the governed" but this is obviously untrue. But what if it wasn't what if the social contract was an actual smart contract wherein one could stake their citizenship in in return for social services? What if a society wasn't one social contract but an interrelated family of contracts? What if these different social contracts all existed in a state of productive competition for citizens leading to better outcomes for all. #### Details Network States can be conceptualized as a Social Contract Tree with the root node serving as an extremely barebones "[society stack](Society%20Stacks)". With child nodes adding in more and more specifications to that stack. Citizenship for that network state exists at the root and citizens are free to traverse the tree staking and un-staking their citizenship into different nodes. In this model staking is an active continuous revokable form of consent, not dissimilar to Balaji's [Technodemocracy](https://www.youtube.com/live/OWEGg-ZTtSE?si=k_pH6V2W_abXmlav&t=34132) only instead of it being a political party you're subscribing to you're instead subscribing to a social contract that allows you entry into a specific part of a parallel society. See a visual tree diagram here [[Social Contract Graph.canvas|Social Contract Graph]][^1] In a well structured network state all of these nodes are in slight competition for resources allowing for some amount of universal darwinism to take place leading to the gradual betterment of the whole network through the preferential growth of *good*[^2] nodes. Under this structure the social contract is actually a dynamic ever-evolving continuous conversation that is mediated by the preferential choices of the citizenry towards which form of the contract they like the best. This structure also preserves the minority rights by allowing for a pluralistic social contract wherein minority can have complete sovereignty over their nodes. --- [^1]: Example graph ![[Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 19.42.47.png]] Canvases don't show up on obsidian publish [^2]: This is defined internally at the root node level via the structure of the system. [^]: *This is an interesting concept theoretically as if you consider the permutation set of all possible society stacks history becomes a tree search where the world is searching for he optimal arrangement of societies*