AC: The Economics of Revolutions

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bison,

You can't win an argument against someone's imagination using facts. Give up.

NT

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You've confused facts with assertions, flawed logic, handwaving, and non sequitors. It's ok though, statists are often confused about such things.

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I'm an anarchist. Unlike some people around here.

NT

[Borodog]

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I'm an anarchist. Unlike some people around here.

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Let me guess, anarchosocialist? Good luck eating roots and berries with the tribe.

[NT!]

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I'm an anarchist. Unlike some people around here.

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Let me guess, anarchosocialist? Good luck eating roots and berries with the tribe.

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Keep guessing... nice how you are so certain about things you don't know, or things that have never existed.

NT

[Borodog]

Hey, apparently you didn't know, so I'll help out and clue you in, but if you're making a guess about somethng, you're not certain about it.

You're welcome!

[mmbt0ne]

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Arbiters who accept bribes go out of business. Imagine if PriceWatersHouseCoopers was exposed by accepting bribes from Paradise to keep its "rigged cards" under wraps. Who would ever hire PWHC after that?

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And we know this because look at all the corrupt businesses that have disappeared already! I mean, every investment bank in America did illegal deals with Enron and made hundreds of millions of dollars, yet only Arthur Anderson felt the brunt of going out of business. Hmmmm. I guess without a government, such things would be much much easier to enfore.

[bisonbison]

Even jr. high educated, inner city gangs know this truth, and avoid "gang war" at all costs.

No, they have few direct confrontations in force, but they have small skirmishes all the time at the fringes, and those skirmishes may be dangerous to bystanders. Those in the neighborhood (since they don't have to pay taxes) pay a private security firm to be out in force in their neighborhood. It's more cost effective for the security firm to offer this service to several adjacent communities at the same time and over time, the amount of coverage offered becomes sparser.

The citizens (unwilling to pay more to get the same service they used to get, but unwilling to go without and absent another choice due to the security market's entry costs) put up with it, but decide that a total ban on handguns on streets within 5 blocks of their houses is gonna be necessary for them to feel safe without a cop on every corner.

Now, non-subscribers live in this covered area, but everytime Bob AC goes out of the house with he sidearm, the few on-duty rentacops busts his balls, pushing him once or twice. Now Bob talks to his security company, demanding protection from these assaults.

The two security companies cannot reach an amicable agreement, and the non-coercer decides it's not worth the cost to insure Bob. Bob is now left uninsured in a two-provider market. Everytime he goes out with his gun he's harassed, and eventually an overzealous rentacop tries to take Bob's gun from him at a fourth of July picnic and gets shot.

The rentacop agency arrests Bob and disappears him, torturing him for weeks. And it all starts because some people live by a bar, don't want to sell their houses, and hate it when drunk people deface their property on saturday nights.

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Hey, apparently you didn't know, so I'll help out and clue you in, but if you're making a guess about somethng, you're not certain about it.

You're welcome!

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I'm talking about the crystal ball that tells you exactly what anarcho-capitalist society will be like post-revolution, despite the fact that nearly every revolutionary in history has been very surprised by what happened when they actually pulled it off.

And also the nuts and berries thing, that was just indicative of the general tone of your 'arguments'

NT

[Riddick]

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I'm talking about the crystal ball that tells you exactly what anarcho-capitalist society will be like post-revolution, despite the fact that nearly every revolutionary in history has been very surprised by what happened when they actually pulled it off.

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Nobody plans exactly what is going to happen in anarchocapitalism, hence a decentralized economy.

[pvn]

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Of course, but if company A feels that they are responding to company B's aggression, when all company B did was buy a franchise down the street from them, who arbitrates that?



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It isn't profitable to initiate violence against a competitor, especially one who is insured by a private security firm.

Even jr. high educated, inner city gangs know this truth, and avoid "gang war" at all costs.

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Coke and Pepsi are going to fight it out in the streets! I'm sure they'll have no shortage of applicants to fill the ranks in their armies.

No blood for pop!

[Riddick]

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Even jr. high educated, inner city gangs know this truth, and avoid "gang war" at all costs.

No, they have few direct confrontations in force, but they have small skirmishes all the time at the fringes, and those skirmishes may be dangerous to bystanders. Those in the neighborhood (since they don't have to pay taxes) pay a private security firm to be out in force in their neighborhood. It's more cost effective for the security firm to offer this service to several adjacent communities at the same time and over time, the amount of coverage offered becomes sparser.

The citizens (unwilling to pay more to get the same service they used to get, but unwilling to go without and absent another choice due to the security market's entry costs) put up with it, but decide that a total ban on handguns on streets within 5 blocks of their houses is gonna be necessary for them to feel safe without a cop on every corner.

Now, non-subscribers live in this covered area, but everytime Bob AC goes out of the house with he sidearm, the few on-duty rentacops busts his balls, pushing him once or twice. Now Bob talks to his security company, demanding protection from these assaults.

The two security companies cannot reach an amicable agreement, and the non-coercer decides it's not worth the cost to insure Bob. Bob is now left uninsured in a two-provider market. Everytime he goes out with his gun he's harassed, and eventually an overzealous rentacop tries to take Bob's gun from him at a fourth of July picnic and gets shot.

The rentacop agency arrests Bob and disappears him, torturing him for weeks. And it all starts because some people live by a bar, don't want to sell their houses, and hate it when drunk people deface their property on saturday nights.

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I can tell you've been reading your Rothbard.