I'm very libertarian and for a long time have been looking into alternative ways to create thriving societies and communities. I've seen lots of attempts but usually they all fail. This is really difficult subject to master, especially when the ultimate target is to make traditional government obsolete.
Based on this I suspect that Bytemaster haven't really understood how much work this will require. We are still lacking pretty much all tools to govern a community reliably and safely. We don't have that many communities that could transform themselves into MAS right now. I think this will require years of full time work. It really isn't easy when you have to build a working and useful community from scratch.
That's why I think this is more like a vision for 2018 or 2019 when we hopefully have more matured blockchain technology and more other tools for community governance (protip: if you don't want to use the word "government" in this context, use "community governance" instead).
Another reason why I'm skeptical of this vision is Bytemaster's ability to market new features. One of the biggest challenges for this kind of project is persuading others to join in. Bytemaster is a genius but unfortunately his persuasion skills are far from perfect. This includes all kind of marketing. I'm afraid this will be a flop because not enough people will get the idea and become convinced about it.
If Bytemaster can get some well known libertarian activists like Jeffrey Tucker, Adam Kokesh or Stephan Molyneux to do the promotion of MAS then it might have some possibilities for success.
And from a bigger perspective: while MAS is a cool idea, I don't think that is the most important right now. It doesn't create new wealth, it just redistributes already existing wealth. I would rather see projects that will enable people to work and create business. It's much better to help people to earn their own living than provide charity for them. There is massive unemployment all over the world and helping all those people would be far more worthwhile (although I might be biased here, just lost my job).
Guess what's a really great tool for enabling business? The Bitshares blockchain. I'd like to see focus on developing more tools that people can use profitably. It is much more easier to form communities when at least some of the people are actually making something profitable. Stealth tranfers is obviously nice tool, and market pegged assets too. Mobile wallets, point of sale systems, etc...
To make a DEX successful you need market depth. To get that you need users. There are many potential ways to get users and effort expended in any of them is potentially productive. We look for ways that we can afford and that are likely to pay off sooner than later.
How exactly you are going to do this? So far we have just a vision. I really think this isn't going to be an easy way. It will require lots of time and money.
And those suggestions "if you don't like BM's ideas just build your own stuff on BitShares" are just false.
With the current poor documentation and no real efforts to attract third-party developers, it is just not possible.
Even if you have an idea you are left alone with it.
Not sure why people blame "poor documentation". Have you read into the source
code already? It is well documented and very easy to read!
I know that for a fact because I tried to get into it even though I am not a
coder and yet here I am, knowing about the tech and the implementation.
It's not a very good elevator pitch to say "hey, just go look the source code for a few days and try to come up with good ideas how to use it". We need better explanations on the web page and more blog posts on new features as they come.
There is nothing on the website about fee backed assets even though it is really super important. There is no mention about the first privatized MPA on the blog to inspire others to make their own.
If I pitch Bitshares to someone and they ask "where I can learn more" there is very few good resources that I can point them to. Most of the best information is here on the forum, where the search function doesn't even work very well.
Other people have to have a simple way to learn about Bitshares. Well documented source code is great when they have decided to build something on Bitshares. But before that we have to have also something to attract them to make the decision to build on Bitshares. We have great product here but we are not making any sales.
Besides the technical source code documentation, we need "ELI5" and "full and clear" explanations for all features and lots of examples.