Who is going to enforce our contract? I’m not saying I’d try to screw you guys, I’m just wondering.
The court system of course
why is it you won’t read Molinari, or Rothbard, or Hoppe, or Murphy, or Friedman, or the Tannehills on private production of law and security, but you are willing to read us?
Because you guys are the stewards of the information you’ve gathered and I can tell a lot about what would happen to me if I read all your favorite literature by just observing the effect it’s had on you guys. Wise man say: “to take a man’s advice is to take on his lifestyle.”
But…I control them…don’t I? I mean I own the land their building is on. It sounds like I will be needing a military.
So you are so afraid to read these sources because you think you will actually be influenced by it? So you purposely isolate yourself from differing opinion to sustain your own? If your opinion is truly great [ and you are constantly telling us how ours doesn’t work while yours is realistic ] then shouldn’t you be able to read these authors and come out stronger?
So you are going to own every piece of land in the midwest including every corporation that operates within it? By chance can you make unicorns magically exist in the midwest too. I hear they are quite wonderful creatures.
Yeah, it’s amazing the hypotheticals people have to come up with to try to find the flaws in libertarianism/an-cap-ism. Anyway, the renters would need permission from the landowner to build improvements upon the land. The problem with Blooms’ hypotheticals is that they are very simplistic and vague, and ill describe the assumptions required to answer his questions.
This reminds me of the Lifeboat Situation problem. Who’s be allowed on limited seating of the lifeboats in the case of an emergency? Well, who the hell owns the lifeboats? Does the cruise ship have an evacuation plan?
Also, if the landowner is going to throw tantrums or go on power trips, then the market will probably develop another country nearby and offer better service to its customers. That is, unless Bloom uses the power of the state to stop that from happening. Lol.
Because it would not be in his economic interests to do so. Allowing others to own property within his property would allow him to realize gains from specialization and the division of labor.
Beat me to it. Also, various costs wouldn’t be socialized by the state (defense, upkeep, arguably transportation, etc.), which would add a diseconomy of scale in owning land.
Yes, but then I’d have to hear all these ideas in my head that are…totally unpleasant for however long it takes me to finish all these books. At the end of it, I’ll only feel more conviction about my ideas…what’s the point. I can see what it’s done to you guys. If you’re happy, awesome. But I don’t want to be like you.
I learned this strategy from Gracie Jiu Jitsu. I just practice the art I learned and it works for me. I don’t try to go around learning new moves. And I really want to be isolated from anarchism in particular because I want people to actually listen to what I have to say and not tune me out as some kind of fanatic. Which is kind of what you guys sound like to me. No offense or anything.
I have no means of creating unicorns. Unless we just glue a horn to a horse’s head or something.
No, the people could move away. I predict I would walk away owning more than I originally did because I would seize the property they built on my land. And then I’d be rich!!
But it would be useless, and worthless, without the people to run it.
I dunno. I think I’d rather just own the land. Then I can let them worry about specialization and division of labor. You can do whatever pleases you.
I could probably take out loans on all the property. Or sell it. Then let someone else worry with it.
On my Bloomboat, I have priority seating on my lifeboats! I don’t actually have a Bloomboat 
What you’re essentially arguing is that people act against their own economic interests. You won’t find a lot of support for that idea in a school of economics.
You won’t touch any of those books because you find their ideas unpleasant, but you’ll lurk around here absorbing second-hand interpretations of the same stuff?
I’m afraid to go aboard your Bloomboat because might (and probably will) throw me off the boat into the ocean. Lol.