One thing to notice is that I never mentioned blockchains, specifically. Why not? Because I consider them only one example of this emerging class of Distributed Value Representation networks. These are the bedrock technologies upon which we can now run experiments like the “pragmatarianism” you’re pitching.

Also, if you think about what pragmatarianism is doing at its core, it’s simply creating a mechanism by which taxpayers can make decisions about the value of state utility at higher granularity. That’s one example of the first dimension I mentioned in my response, in which technologies like blockchains specifically — and Distributed Value Representation more generally — allow for us to experiment with a trusted mode of incorporating more information about our marginal utility functions into the systems that govern our lives.

Here’s another article demonstrating how this space will open up the world of governance to an era of experimentation unlike any that’s come before: https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/blockchain-governance-programming-our-future-c3bfe30f2d74

Ultimately, I don’t we’re so far apart here.