Re: AC: The Economics of Revolutions
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The only markets in which criminal mobs and gangs spring up are precisely those markets that are monopolized, i.e. made black, by the central mob, the state. Violence is not +EV when free competition is allowed. It is only when government outlaws free competition that the competition becomes populated with outlaws.
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I don't think I understand this argument. Are you saying that anytime someone, for example, steals goods and then sells them, this is a result of the existence of the state?
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