How To Rescue a Child (without the State)

[EvilSocialistFellow]

@trulib

Yeah, that’s what I meant. But we know from economic reasoning that markets are superior to monopolies. All the rest is detail. Like, we can talk about why, in particular, a free market in education, say, is superior to a monopoly of education. But it is, or should be, sufficient (for those who’ve grasped this simple economic truth) to say that a free market in education is superior to a monopoly of education simply because this is true whenever free markets are compared to monopolies. The critic of a free market in law, who supports free markets in other industries, has to explain why law is an exception to the general rule.

The transition to anarchy is really a whole seperate issue, and a big and important one. As you mentioned on the other thread, you are not quite convinced about the viability of anarchism, so I think it is first necessary for me to try to convince you that the goal is worth having, i.e. anarchy is superior to statism. Then we can talk about the potential costs of a transition to come to a conclusion whether the benefits of anarchy outweight those costs. If you’re not yet convinced that anarchy will deliver any benefit over what we have now, it seems premature to start considering what the costs of a transition might be.

But since you brought it up… Personally, I’m quite optimistic that the costs of a transition will be relatively low, and certainly outweighed by the full benefits that will come when the transition is complete. In my opinion, secessionism (rather than, say, privatization) is the lowest cost transition strategy. (Maybe start a new thread if you want to discuss this though, as its very off-topic).

I think you’re reading into my arguments against AnCap slightly wrong. My arguments are not that AnCap would be less prosperous on the whole as such (I understand what is wrong with saying ‘on the whole’ - I am just being lazy) but that some people would ‘get left behind’. I explained this in far more detail here: https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/education-and-voluntarism/17638/257

I’d be interested to know whether you would prefer superhuman progress and only a few people living in (absolute) poverty or moderate progress and no-one living in (absolute) poverty. My thoughts in terms of the prevention of child abuse are the same.

Capitalism is the ‘wealth generator’ so to speak but the state is the ‘wealth redistributor’. Having said that, I only want minimalised wealth redistribution so to speak.