How do you organize your family "as the family"? How do you organize your company "as the company"? How do we organize ourselves in this website "as the HN commenters"?

When you say "as the people" it seems to imply that "we" ought to have some general agreement between all residents of this arbitrary territory limits known as the US.

Yes we have that agreement. It's our constitution and laws that build on it. In fact your company and even your family build on that. Your company is in essence a giant pile of paperwork that make up the agreements the company is build on. Your family is not as different as you might think. Beyond the sentimental part there are again contracts and laws that make you a family and you either implicitly or often explicitly agree on then. The commonty of people living in the US and your state even dictate what "family" even means.

When I was much younger I was appalled by this and tried to refuse to accept this, but that's how it is. Otherwise as soon as things get hard everything falls apart. It also helps us beat the tragedy of the commons and make collective decisions more effectively. It's not ideal and there is lots of room for improvement, but there general approach works works pretty well and is at the heart of every society I know of. Sometimes it's more explicit than at others.

>When you say "as the people" it seems to imply that "we" ought to have some general agreement between all residents of this arbitrary territory limits known as the US.

Yes, we should. It's odd in this day that I can't tell if you're a radical liberal NWO kind of person, or a college libertarian feeling out the philosophy of border ethics.

Horseshoe theory

That sounds like a great arrangement, as long as I get to be be patriarch, the boss, or the moderator who has dictatorial authority over who stays and who goes, and what the rules are.

Sound good?

Is your family like that? Sorry.

Your family or employer isn't? Your internet forum... oh, wait...