a militia cant stop F15's from carpetbombing them

@ikillu blame tom

They can kill the families of the pilots

theoretically

In theory

I go now for real

whats stopping mcdonalds from putting families under their protection? i.e just moving families to dorms in the capital of mcdonistan

@Double Negative the misconception with corporations in an AnCap society is the idea that they would be supported when something like this were to happens

Let's say that McDonalds goes on a McMilitary Campaign

Nobody is going to support them anymore, no one will buy burgers or anything, cutting off their revenue

Could they not support themselves in part by the spoils of war?

Not to mention that other PMCs that are under contract by insurance companies would also be in the mix

Father k piss off please

The motion doesnt have to be instantaneous, I'd imagine McDonalds would attempt to diversify and overtake competitors (either by force or by legitimate methods) while acquiring a manufacturing base

@Double Negative They sure could, but it a company is doing well, why would I, a stockholder, go for war when I'm being paid millions?

A state's wealth and power derives from forceful accumulation of taxes, the people refuse to pay taxes and cut revenue

does the state lose its power?

Because you, a stockholder, would profit from whatever resources McDonalds seizes

@Double Negative that manufacturing base needs to be funded by something

With a state, its by taxes, aka something that isn't going away

With McDonalds

Its burgers

And people and choose to not buy burgers

>needs to be funded
by McDonald's massive diversified portfolio of industries

McConcrete sales going directly into McKalishnikov

Ok, and they'd be blacklisted for all of it

but they arent currently violently overtaking the planet

Ok, when they do

they can bide their time and slowly become a monopoly before making their move

Incorrect

Natural monopolies are incredibly rare and only happen when you can't compete with the products or when there is a tech barrier to reducing costs or improving designs

And even then they get broken up when literally anything changes

>natural
"whoops, this board of directors got wiped out by an unnamed killsquad. guess we, as an innocent third party, will buy the company after it devalues :^)"

The monopolies you see now wouldn't happen in a free market

The problem with ancapistan isnt a sole service provider like mcdonalds, but corporations with a natural monopoly on resources, or oligarchism

free market needs a governing force to keep it free

Itself

i'm just using mcdonalds as a placeholder for "big company", any company could do this if they had the capital to start

The idea of a free market is not simply a single face issue

Its a system that has checks and balances

Literally and figuratively