In a market system, every single enterprise is profit-oriented. They will only exist as long as people pay for the services it provides. How would public places (private in a market anachist society, which are public nowadays) subsist? People would have to pay for beaches, parks and libraries? I understand the reason why someone should have to pay for using a library, but would parks and beaches exist at all? Or they will build hotels and shoppings instead, leaving people with no green places and natural landscapes?
I suppose that parks and beaches will exist in a pure market environment, with volutary contributions made by private enterprises or individuals. This would also serve as a means of advertisement for them, am I right?
`They’d be provided by the owners of communities. That is, if people desired them.
The outdoors and natural beauty already have a market value. Entire industries evolve around the outdoor adventurer or the person who wants to relax on the beach. However I think a very good question is whether people really desire to be close to nature so much that in a free market system they would really use prime city real estate for an expansive park. To me it seems a waste only the state would undertake.
I could easily see places like Yellowstone and Glacier National Park being operated in the free market.
In fact, if those places were operated for profit, I could see them expanding.
Public places are nothing more than land improvements paid for by landlords. The landlords then profit from renting the improved land to other people.
For example, shopping malls are public places, but you do not have to pay anything to go there. The stores pay the mall operator for the benefit of the public place.