Have you ever wondered why the vast majority of people prefer to sit quietly in an office from 9 to 6, instead of starting their own business, trying to change the world, or even just loudly expressing their opinion? The answer is very simple – it’s all about fear. A primal fear of catastrophic consequences. The fear of losing your apartment due to a failed startup, the fear of falling out of favor with those in power, the fear of ending up on the street with a black mark against your name because of a single careless word.

Without the right to make mistakes, society turns into a paralyzed herd where any initiative is punishable by execution (or, well, lifelong debt). And to understand how to get out of this, let’s remember how humanity once solved this problem.

Do you know where limited liability companies (those very LLCs and LTDs) actually came from? Do you think the monarchs and lords of the past century suddenly developed a love for commoners and decided to show them mercy? Not at all. Before the emergence of this concept, business was a game of Russian roulette. A ship carrying your cargo sank? Welcome to the debt pit. Couldn’t pay off your creditors? Sell your last pair of pants, or even your freedom. Naturally, people hid their money under mattresses in terror. No one wanted to risk their head for the sake of innovation.

And then, gritting their teeth, states realized: if risks are not limited, there simply will be no economy. They decided to make it so that if your business fails, you only lose what you invested in the charter capital. Your house, wife, children, and dog remain yours. This was not an act of kindness, but a cold calculation: people breathed a sigh of relief, pulled out their savings, and the Industrial Revolution began.

And now, look at what is happening today. The state, intoxicated by a thirst for control and tax collection, is methodically destroying the very essence of “limited liability.” The curse of modern business is so-called subsidiary liability. The tax authorities or creditors can easily come after an entrepreneur’s personal property. Underpaid taxes because a counterparty turned out to be a fraud? Hand over your car, your apartment, and we’ll even freeze your grandmother’s accounts.

What does this lead to? Certainly not to prosperity. Sensible people do not want to try doing anything under such conditions. Business goes deep into the shadows, operating in cash, through crypto, registering companies to “drop” homeless people, or simply closing down. People refuse to create because the price of error has once again become fatal.

But let’s go further. Currently, we live in two worlds – the physical and the digital. And while in business they try to deprive us of protection, in the Internet, there was none to begin with. Today, the Web is a minefield with unlimited liability. You wrote the wrong comment, reposted a meme, or argued with the wrong person on a forum – and suddenly, someone is knocking on your real-life door. Imagine you are playing a video game where your character’s death means you lose a finger in real life. How many people would want to play? Exactly.

To liberate the network, it is vital that we transfer the concept of limited liability online. Following the principle: “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” What is said and done online (within the scope of network activity, exchange of opinions, and virtual interactions) must stay online!

Conservatives, of course, will howl that this will lead to anarchy online and everyone will hide behind masks. But in reality, the exact opposite will happen. People obsessively hide their identities, use double VPNs, and invent nicknames precisely because they fear real-world physical consequences.

If a person knows for a fact that the maximum they risk for their words online is a platform ban, a loss of virtual rating, or a digital block within a specific community, they will relax. They will no longer need to hide. Users will begin to voluntarily and actively reveal their identities because building a real reputation is profitable. A true economy of trust will emerge.

Voluntarist, Bitarch