Sovereign citizen movements are a figurative cancer on society. The apparent rise, is an artifact of visible social media engagement and the news cycle. In reality, their attempts to avoid taxation and law founder pretty much as always, and they have no more credibility now than they did when people first proposed these theories.
Ask any lawyer. They're tired of dealing with mentally ill people who believe writing their NAME, A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN somehow magically changes their status in law.
To be charitable to your meaning: are there relatively more people displaying this belief? Yes. Are they going to succeed in construction of a new polity and legal structure around their conception of law and society? No.
This is a harbinger for the western world too. Can any of us in the tech industry claim that silicon valley "authoritarianism" is not an issue?
Working in tech now is fraught with peril, especially if one says anything outside of the overton window. I wouldn't be surprised if this starts happening in America as well in a few years.
The issue is that currently public discourse happens on semi-public spaces. (Eg. Facebook, reddit, YouTube.) All slightly different mediums, different rules, different communities (and meta-communities, and other aggregates and hierarchies and moderation/reporting systems).
And the owners of these places want to extract profit from these places, they on one hand like the money, but they reasonably must police their places. Virtually millions of people can shout at the same time at the same place. Bullying, doxxing, harassment, SWATing, spam, scam, porn, gore, really fucked up ideologies, racism/xenophobia, and whatnot are cropping up.
And it's clear that people are not really interested in going back to the typewriter and mailing letters to various publications.
This large scale "politicing" is likely truly unprecedented. Bored and angry people can comment, like, upvote, downvote whatever anyone wrote/posted/created/asked.
> Working in tech now is fraught with peril, especially if one says anything outside of the overton window.
That's "fake news" - because the base rate is low, even if there are clear examples of it. (Eg Google firing Damore who pointed out that Google's diversity group/effort is very inefficient because it's unscientific, so inadvertently exposed it as a simple PR effort.)
We don't really live in that world anymore – what is value investing when the Federal Reserve sets the price? More and more, "intagibles" like brand value are becoming more important on balance sheets than investors want to admit.
For me Tesla stock value is where it got confirmed stock valuation diverged from any data points. I understand there is a potential huge upside there, but no real data points would justify anything close to the current valuation.
Especially in comparison to 9 months ago, the fundamentals did not really change (conpetitive landscape etc.) There was the CyberTruck announcement, though
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As Noah Smith says, this type of argument is simply lazy analysis. Much of the "exploitation" occurs not due to singular businesses, but because of governments pursuing their own independent agendas. Take oil drilling, where state sponsored firms in China do not heed environmental regulations. Is that pure capitalism killing the natural world?
There is certainly more of a trend toward the sovereign individual than at any other point, curious why you don't think it's possible?