For my part, of course, it would help enormously if we took money out of the equation at the outset. Set things up so that people only do things because it is either a part what their community has agreed to as things needing to be done; or because it simply serves the self interest of the individual; as in making something they desire for their own use (which of course their participation in the community's upkeep ensures that they will have both the instrumentality required, as well as the materials, and assistance if needed, to accomplish the construction). And as corrupt social media outlets might not have much of a priority anymore (what with City State citizens talking so much amongst themselves--just to keep coordination up for accomplishing all of the community's many needs, you understand), we might have reason to hope that our communications would be a good deal more trustworthy.
There are also, certainly, other occurrences, and situations, that might suggest a strong probability that we are not so much of a "United States" of America any more. A convincing argument, it seems to me, could be made that we stopped being states of the "united" variety, a decade or two ago; once organized labor was convincingly defeated (after the heydays of the sixties and seventies) with the advent of free trade, and the true globalization of labor as a commodity (in lockstep with the containerization of cargo, and the advent of super bulk carriers), so that distance from either point of assembly, or point of sale, became less and less a factor than either labor costs, or just as bad, any kind of strident review of operations so that the, heaven help us, the environment, or some bread winner's life, might be saved.
So no, by absolute economic facts on the ground, we are no longer a "United States" of America. Make no mistake, though, we still need, absolutely, to be some form of unified whole. And that to me, could only be a more loosely based federation of semi independent city states (something at least akin to the old Greek mold). We can do this if we understand that Capitalism is broke anyway, and absolutely as well, cannot be fixed. So you see, there's really little choice in the matter no matter how you look at it; that is to say, however, that you do in fact keep a goodly number of facts involved in how you perceive things.
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