(History replies: Not just no, but hell no.)

@Death in June the people would have to be more responsoiible as they were more like in the 1800s in america, there would have to be decentralised means of record keeping and contracts and perhaps most importantly of all many services provided by government today would have to have private companies pick up the slack, example, private company for road mantence, private securty companies, private fire departments

Whereas AnCap the historical answer is... .... ... maybe?

read my profile

Rational Man Animal

in the REVERSE order

thus commie = animal

@Laucivol that's cool, atleast you're open minded to it

rational is at the top of the pyramid

So again I just have to take your word and hope companies are benevolent enough not to form monopolies.

hard to stay there when survival is at stake

And my experience of corporations is not so much.

I cannot trust a company to have my best interest at hand.

well, the problem is that a corporation MUST by law place the profit of share holders ABOVE all other concerns

Nor can I trust a sovereignty to have my best interest at hand.

thus if the company can break the law but profit more than the fine....

they are required to break the law

you see the paradox

Also yes I want to have options to skim through as my house is burning to the ground.

(Even GodManAnimalEmperor wants AnCap to make sense, by the by... but we still don't see the result as net positive versus what's before us.)

that is the one flaw with the market

cancer is a GREAT market creature

but what WILL be or what is sustainable tommorrow has no value to the market

it will consume it self if it profitable and will never realize the inevitable cliff until the fall begins

@SageTheory they will have a much harder time when there is so much competition, the free market is not kind to monopolies

that is an oxymoron

if you have COMPETITION

you have no MONOPOLY

Except we've seen that going completely hands free *is* kind to monopolies.

Rockefeller bought out all his competition. Nothing stops that in Ancap world.

The industrial revolution EG Rockefeller, Carnegie and so on shows us that.

well, not really because.... now that interest rates are artifical and money is fiat

not real capitalism

(i know, i know)

The only reason people don't do that now is anti monopoly laws otherwise they'd be more common.

(Still not arguing against it.. . once we moved to fiat currency... capitalism breaks.)

but in truth, we have changed the very basis of the mechanism that makes capitalism function

Derivatives destroy markets. Period

Besides the few that the govt doesn't crack down on

Only GOD should be able to create something from nothing