The government is to make sure we stay in check

who have high incentives to innovate

Not nessecarily

yes

Also we should have more power over the government

Thr government doesn't do that

businesses in general if there is competition and profits have huge incentives to innovate and keep their cost down

The state creates monopolies

what

reduces consumer choice

creates more inflation and artificial scarcity

causes recessions

yes

how would we have more control of the gov if there is no gov

lol

I mean what’s to stop say 10,000 people from banding together and looting a small town

private firms that have a hold of private militias?

where on earth did that come from?

same thing that stops them now

We just say the gov causes monopolies

sid

No he was suggesting anarcho capitalism earlier

why do you have the role american if you said youre from the uk like 10 mins ago

what

yes

were talking about anarcho capitalism here?

cause I leveld up

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Whats to stop these companies from charging ludicrously high prices for protection?

Competition

and they won't get sales

competition

and no one would buy t hem

other companies would take advantage of the situation

and sell at lower prices

and boom demand

If they are big enough to actually protect large groups of people effectively, competition can be squashed in areas

And would they not be able to forcibly take property from people?

Nope

no that would be a monopoly what youre talking about. And monopolies are impossible in free markets as ive stated. And they wouldn't. That argument could be appliked to the gov

The gov can foprcibly take property from peopel