patches70 wrote:That's how the true anarcho-capitalistic system works. Each and every person labors on their own to provide what they can. Not everyone labors on the same thing, nor can anyone labor enough to provide everything they'll need in life to survive.
That's where the anarcho=capitalism comes in. Everyone is doing productive things, truly productive things. There won't be any bureaucrats, because they do't produce a damn thing. Everyone producing and then trading excess of their labors for other things they don't have the time, resources or ability to produce.
It is all voluntary. With absolutely no need for a governing body to oversee it all. People will protect their own interests and it's in everyone's interest to protect all the other producers as well.
If you are a farmer, that's all you have time, resources and knowledge for, you'll help out the local carpenter if someone tries to rob him because you are in need of the carpenters services to get by.
Same goes with the carpenter, who will gladly help protect you, the farmer, because if some non productive thief steals all your crops, the carpenter will go hungry as well.
In such a system, all the productive members of the society will work together because they all mutually benefit each other. The nonproductive members of the society will starve and freeze to death in the winter. Thus, in the end, all that is left is the productive members of society all working together of their own free will because their own survival depends on it.
There are just so many things that could be potentially wrong with that. The fact that it’s so simple seems to be one of its greatest flaws. I would want to help the carpenter not get robbed because I “need” him? Why? There are so many other possibilities that it’s mind boggling.
I don’t want to get killed, and I might only need a carpenter’s services a few times in a lifetime, if he gets killed it might not directly affect me for years, all I would need is a do it yourself book and I could make my own farming equipment, or just wait for another carpenter to come along to fill the void.
You greatly overestimate human kindness; there has always been crime, why would the people in this society be any different? Why wouldn’t I or any other greedy individuals band together with the robber, take over the town and make the carpenter and everyone else our slave?
What safety do you think you can manage by eliminating authority? When everyone simply has the freedom to pursue their own self-interest, when there is no safety net and pursuing the wrong path will leave you to starve and die, the majority will go to what is seemingly “profitable” over what is needed, just look at how so many people around the world make bootleg jeans and handbags.
Middle Eastern drug trade shows that a farmer can’t be trusted to put effort to needed crops over profitable crops when their livelihood is on the line.
This mentality would ruin so many things, extremely important services that don’t have price tags, who’s going to buy biology research?
What about the FDA? Who will care what goes into your medicine? This is no different than a third-world country, the drug company can put plaster and chalk in a capsule and one won’t know the difference until one was on their death-bed.
The only one who could prevent this would be legitimate scientists, a profession that would be quickly killed off for a lack of legitimate reason to work, would each individual buy inspection services?
Of course not; even if there was an agreement they would have no reason not to just get bought off by the drug makers, it’s not like there would be any professional standard of oversight.
The environment would quickly deteriorate to unlivable conditions without any environmental protection regulations.
And when each community becomes so isolated from an all-encompassing culture, there would be no reason to protect a neighboring city from foreign threat, there would be no military, and the ragtag militias formed would have stifled development in military technology and manufacture without a national budget to fund them.
Eventually everything would fall apart; it’s only a matter of being destroyed from the inside out, or from the outside in.
There are many forms of "law enforcement" that a disorganized society just can't feasibly provide.
