Comment Re:Libertarianism is not anarchy (Score 1) 549
Lets introduce a new term: anarcho-capitalist (anarchos). These are the people that have become wrongly associated with libertarians. These are the people that believe that markets can replace government. That just doesn't work, Volkris you're right on.
Anarchos are the ones that you have to watch out for, they think that because the market works efficiently, those principles would work just as well for society. However, the market and ALL its players are driven by one thing, capital/money. Societies are not driven by one thing and to assume that a market structure would be as stable as law-based society is false; an improper extension of thinking, at least that's how I see it. I could be wrong.
The single mindedness of the market puts everyone on the same measurement system, capital/money. If you are getting more money you are doing well, if you are not then you are doing poorly. If you are gaining money unfairly you risk competitors undercutting you and consumers avoiding you because of your business practices. In a society, because each person has a different measure of their value to/in society you don't have a standard, which means you can't convert between multiple values, which means you don't know who is doing better or worse, you don't know who is cheating, who is playing the rules (if there are any to begin with). This sets up a natural society, Charles Darwin and natural selection at its finest....survival of the most well adapted, that could be the strongest (the most guns, the most "money", etc.) or that could be the most cunning (who lies the best, parasite behavior). That's not the market we know, that's multiple markets that interconnect and interfere with each other and that produces tension, which means war and conflict for humans.
Anarchos are the ones that you have to watch out for, they think that because the market works efficiently, those principles would work just as well for society. However, the market and ALL its players are driven by one thing, capital/money. Societies are not driven by one thing and to assume that a market structure would be as stable as law-based society is false; an improper extension of thinking, at least that's how I see it. I could be wrong.
The single mindedness of the market puts everyone on the same measurement system, capital/money. If you are getting more money you are doing well, if you are not then you are doing poorly. If you are gaining money unfairly you risk competitors undercutting you and consumers avoiding you because of your business practices. In a society, because each person has a different measure of their value to/in society you don't have a standard, which means you can't convert between multiple values, which means you don't know who is doing better or worse, you don't know who is cheating, who is playing the rules (if there are any to begin with). This sets up a natural society, Charles Darwin and natural selection at its finest....survival of the most well adapted, that could be the strongest (the most guns, the most "money", etc.) or that could be the most cunning (who lies the best, parasite behavior). That's not the market we know, that's multiple markets that interconnect and interfere with each other and that produces tension, which means war and conflict for humans.
