Citizenship is a duty of allegiance in return for a duty of protection.
Ostensibly, the 'govt' protects us, and we have a duty to be loyal to it.
This is the mind control programming forced upon us from birth.
'You can grow up to be president.'
As the scotus has ruled that the gov't has no duty to protect you, there can be no citizens.
There is no gov't as described by the programming.
You can't sue the cops if your car gets stolen.
You can't sue the cops if your house gets broken into.
You can't sue the cops for anything they don't allow you to sue them for, sovereign immunity.
Ergo, absent a duty to protect, there can be no citizens.
What we have is an armed, organized gang that forces us to pay and obey.
Call it what you will, but this is the essence of the reality, for many of us.
As for the hierarchies that formed in the collectives, you are correct, the more capable are moved into positions of responsibilities.
This is to be expected.
What is not expected is the corruption inherent in non-voluntary interactions.
With body cams and live streaming, those 'responsible' to the people can be closely monitored in their public activities.
Much moreso than in the past.
And, yes, as long as the majority accepts money as a necessary means to trade, the collectives that don't embrace enslavement to a monetary god operate at a disadvantage.
I think what is missed in the status quo is the amount of crapital that goes to the top.
Why does less than 1% of the population own 50% of the property?
Because crapitalism is designed to starve the poor for the benefit of the rich.
This is how ruling classes have always lived.
At the expense of others.
The Iron Heel does the math of this quite well, imo.
Absent 'profits' the food that currently spoils in the fields gets distributed.
Collectives spread this abundance around a little more.
One ring does not rule them all.
The mom and pops didn't drive each other out of business with near the vehemence of the current corporate class.
Why do you figure that sooo much effort goes into disparaging cooperative management of group endeavors?
The top down model is the only acceptable management system?
Why has a ruling class developed?
Why do all laws favor the rich?
Why do rich people fare better in the 'just us' system of courts and armed, uniformed enforcers?
There is a better way.
Being free people, we should do as we please.
IF me and you can't write our rules down and force them onto others, how did 'they' get that power?
Imagine a world where there were no 'bills'.
No electric bill.
No phone bill.
Interwebz for free.
But, in return, you were expected to work from the age of 20 to 50 in the machines that make the abundance possible.
A total of ~25k hours should suffice.
Then, at the age of 50, if you are not doing something you love, you can.
All with no plane tickets to pay for.
No hotel bills when you get there.
All provided to you from the abundance of not bowing to the money god.
Shared with you as a fellow human being.
One that makes it possible to live on a beach with a tv and a car serving food to anyone that comes by and asks for it.
Up to you, if my ideal doesn't float as a better way, nobody will force you.