I made it clear no hurdles should stop pro-change movements.
If governments cannot provide the services they are expected to provide properly, people may find ways to provide them in parallel ways. This weakens governments. The regime might think they can control the cabinet but the issue is that the more they weaken the cabinet the more they push people toward alternative and parallel solutions. Therefore it’s not wise to weaken the cabinet because they are actually reinforcing parallel mechanisms.
For example, the stock market in Iran has been terrible. This is an idea for an alternative solution for small businesses:
Ideas about micro-investment have been briefly discussed in the past. It was also discussed that small businesses can sell tokens to attract investments for their businesses. So people buy and sell those tokens on platforms beyond the reach of the government. small businesses get funds in the form of cryptocurrencies. If governments can provide services that increase trust in those investments, those platforms will benefit and will use those services. But if governments only make hurdles and make things more difficult, those platforms will find ways to bypass those hurdles. So this is a challenge for governments to decide how they can maximize their positive effect on those platforms.
Those who are familiar with my ideas from early on, know that I started with libertarian ideas at first. But my ideas have evolved. For example, I don’t support total anonymity instead I think a reputation system should be built to facilitate cost evaluation in complex systems. Also, I think governments in many cases should be similar to other service providers. If they provide services that are beneficial, the private sector will use those services. So this is not a way to bypass governments’ functionalities altogether, instead, the aim is to push governments toward providing beneficial services.
In the case of conflicts such as war, parallel mechanisms such as this one will thrive as the central government’s functionality will be much more limited.
(As a side note if you threaten my family or harm them I won’t stop I will play more effective cards against you – if you arrest me, that will be the best advertisement I can get)
UPDATE 1:
Parallelism is not limited to Iran.
The new round of talk about the Gaza ceasefire will start in Doha. This might be the last chance. If Netanyahu fails to reach a deal to free hostages he provides the environment for paralelism. Whenever governments fail, parallelism grows.