Alien Refutes Anarcho-Capitalism

[MMMark]

Sat. 12/05/26 21:56 EDT
.post #156

@Buzz Killington

Competition: would it not take quite a bit of time for another company to emerge and create some new roads? What are the citizens supposed to do if they have to drive to work on a regular basis?

Protests: sorry angry protestors, I’m not allowing protests on my roads, and if you do it anywhere else why should I care? It’s not as if I GAF whether or not you dislike my dictatorial corporation.

Mutual aid: let’s just see how long you can survive without my roads

But surely when a certain system (private roads in this case) is proposed, you have to face the problems it creates!

Let’s make things even worse.

In addition to doing all the rotten things you’ve mentioned, let’s give this dictatorial corporation six more powers:

1. The power to make everybody pay for its roads, whether or not those people use the roads, without suffering any legal consequences;
2. The power to impose a money monopoly on all the people, grant the monopoly to itself, and then print as much money as it pleases. Now it can never go broke or bankrupt.
3. The power to assault, imprison, and kill any other competitors in the road business, without suffering any legal consequences.
4. The power to assault, imprison, and kill angry protestors, without suffering any legal consequences.
5. The power to do all these things anywhere in the world
   (see, for example, Lew Rockwell: US enjoys sending Tomahawks, killing).
6. The power to do anything else, all without legal consequences.

In other words, let’s turn this dictatorial corporation into…a government.

It seems to me that, even in the highly unlikely, worst-case scenario, the free market is preferable, and by a considerable margin.