Re: Somalia
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So before when there were articles coming out describing how crappy Somalia was, Somalia wasn't considered a fair example of AC. But now that someone writes something positive, it is all of a sudden fair game? Sorry guys, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
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People in horrible poverty because the government spent all the wealth it could get it's hands on to attempt not to collapse: Not a problem with anarchocapitalism or libertarian philosophy, it's a problem with statism and the after effects of it.
People with very high time preferences and no government resorting to looting, murdering, and other non-voluntary acts as well as the UN and US also attempting to institute governments that the people refuse to recognize the legitmacy of all the while escalting the violence: Not an example of anarchocapitalism. There is government intervention and more importantly, there is little cooperation, free trade, property rights, contract, etc. Even if the government wasn't involved that would put the "A" in there, but the "C" is most definetly not.
People eventually deciding the cooperation>>>conflict, beginning to respect property rights, contracts, division of labor which as led to foriegn investments and higher standards of living then under the state and under their statist nieghbors: A success for anarchocapitalism, free markets, libertarian philosophy, and Austrian economics.
Governments don't create wealth, markets do. The only argument for a state is that without certain regulations of the state in the market the market would produce horrible outcomes. Now we see a stateless society (in fact one that has been historically stateless with the exception of when western powers have attempted to force it on them) creating wealth without government facilliating it.
Gone are the doomsday theories that say government oversight is needed or else the market (and society) collapses. Hopefully now the statists will agree that ACism is possible and sustainable, something MANY of the statists have disagreed with in the past.
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