Post-Katrina New Orleans

[Msgr. Martinez]

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I'm expecting capital investment to start pouring into this ACer's paradise any day now.

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New Orleans has exactly as much government it had the day before the hurricane. More per capita, now.

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It obviously no longer has a monopoly on violence. And money being funneled by crooked pols to crooked contractors doesn't really constitute a government presence.

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But it does constitute ACer paradise?

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To be honest, I'm not sure what does, as the answer seems to change. I think AC paradise is a situation where government has done all the work of building infrastructure and wealth, but then steps back and allows the plutocrats to reap 100% of the benefits of its work.

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You forgot the part where rich people eat poor people's babies.

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Well, since babies aren't "moral agents," would they have a right to object?

At any rate, you act like I'm misconstruing the AC position when I'm not. When folks ask why AC doesn't spring up in the absence of government - a legitimate question - they're told that "the conditions just aren't right" or something along those lines.