I finally got here! Thank you for this. Very interesting, well written and clear. It makes sense, statelessness. Not many could comprehend the idea because they rely on the state for security. Which is a joke because the state does not provide security, just mafia style protection.
This makes me think that without the state billionaires would almost not exist. I guess they could but would most likely not. I think society puts a lot these people on a pedestal as to aspire to, but it seems the reality is that any mega success they have had was compounded or propped up by government intervention.
Precisely. The irony is that those who hate wealth inequality the most tend to fall for the knee-jerk reaction of petitioning government to solve it when it’s government that created it in the first place
There are zero mechanisms in the free-market economy that centralize "power." If anything, free-market competition is the great equalizer. The only mechanism for centralizing power is government, The only think that checks centralization is free-market competition. It's economics 101. The appeal to tradition fallacy "state-based society, has, thus far outcompeted the stateless model for society" is void. For the vast majority of human existence there have been slaves, child soldiers and child sacrifices. So what? People just don't know better. Appeals to tradition hold us back.
Motte and bailey fallacy. No, there are absolutely no mechanisms that lead to monopoly in a free market. None. Yes, instances of statelessness have eventually been taken over by the cancer of the state. This is an argument against the state. People need to know how statelessness can work with decentralized self-governance. If you take the time to read what many of us write about, you might discover something, a realization.
Excellent dive government (state)= force/violence. Governments should not be involved in money,the fed ( private monopoly) should be shuttered
I’m glad this resonates with you.
Completely
I finally got here! Thank you for this. Very interesting, well written and clear. It makes sense, statelessness. Not many could comprehend the idea because they rely on the state for security. Which is a joke because the state does not provide security, just mafia style protection.
Thank you, Oscar. Yes, indeed, the state does not solve anything. Quite the opposite
This makes me think that without the state billionaires would almost not exist. I guess they could but would most likely not. I think society puts a lot these people on a pedestal as to aspire to, but it seems the reality is that any mega success they have had was compounded or propped up by government intervention.
Precisely. The irony is that those who hate wealth inequality the most tend to fall for the knee-jerk reaction of petitioning government to solve it when it’s government that created it in the first place
well written. good points. very david friedman anarcho-capitolist vibes
I’m very glad we see eye to eye on this. Thank you
There are zero mechanisms in the free-market economy that centralize "power." If anything, free-market competition is the great equalizer. The only mechanism for centralizing power is government, The only think that checks centralization is free-market competition. It's economics 101. The appeal to tradition fallacy "state-based society, has, thus far outcompeted the stateless model for society" is void. For the vast majority of human existence there have been slaves, child soldiers and child sacrifices. So what? People just don't know better. Appeals to tradition hold us back.
Motte and bailey fallacy. No, there are absolutely no mechanisms that lead to monopoly in a free market. None. Yes, instances of statelessness have eventually been taken over by the cancer of the state. This is an argument against the state. People need to know how statelessness can work with decentralized self-governance. If you take the time to read what many of us write about, you might discover something, a realization.