don't make up your own and say it doesnt work; focus on my example and tell me how it doesn't work

i never mention a company receiving a subsidy

The resting argument of AnCap seems to be that the gov't enables bad habits due to favoritism and nepotism.

Because saying no govt = no monopolies is false and also it's not so bad to where it's crippling the economy.

i said the gov pays for trains with dollars raised by taxing car owners

@SageTheory AnCaps handle it by not handling it, monoplies simply form less with out government, AnCaps don't promise there wont be any but there will certainly be far less

the gov pays a compnay for a product (trains) just like any other customer

xD

Okay

exactly Laucvioui

So they don't have an answer

they focus on the shit implementation

We just have to take their word.

rather than comparing ideal to ideal first

Alright, the thing about as said monopolies still form.. and have even more power than they would under mixed economies.

corruption is everywhere, we know. but ideally, for the sake of comparison, we pretend it doesn't exist so we can assess the merits of ancap vs republic

They would nothing would stop them. Even though we have monopolies only a few really get away with forming them.

(@ManAnimal "Capitalism hasn't been done right, yet." I know what you mean, but it falls into the same problem as the fierce Communists there.)

not sure what you mean exactly but i do agree in general

@ManAnimal the biggest corruption is seen between corporate back room deals with government

eliminate government you take away alot of the corruption

Thing is that sans wider gov't anti-trust laws in place gets to the same badness.

the KEY difference is that while i can describe the ideal mechanisms of capitalism they cannot describe the ideal mechanisms of communism

I'll give you that.. ergo why I caveated I know what you mean.

capitalism rests of 'capital being a storage of value' and any implementation would lay along a spectrum of how well it acheives that metric

ah, ok

@Terry Arcona what qualities would a society have to have for it to count as anarcho-capitalist

hey,, I thought you died last month?

@Terry Arcona Most of us are trying to find out how to make AnCap work, TBH.

my heart did

In fact read up on Rockefeller he accomplished his monopoly with colliding with other companies.

I really want the idea to be functional... but I just don't see how.

personally, I would LOVE to be the electrical engineer that developed the first cloaking device and create Galt's Gulch with it

but... Dreams vs Reality

be sure not to confuse

As I've said numerous times is/ought.

the idea doesn't really seem coherent to me

also, how about this observation: "I swear by my life and my love of it, that I shall never work solely for the sake of another man...."

Ought AnCap be able to function in ideal? Yes. Is humanity able to make it so? As Death in June just said.. doesn't seem to be.

^^^ can this saying be applied to both MEN and WOMEN?

i don't agree with the first part