How do you prevent it from centralizing around a few rich, powerful capitalists and they're armies? Some kind of state will emerge, and it will not be democratic. Also, no taxes means no welfare means you are sentencing millions or billions of people to death -- I've never heard a libertarian sufficiently explain what they plan to do with poor people.

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Rich people armies… Do you have some good current examples? I only experienced it one time by myself (Thailand - Thaksin) and it was kind of cool. It was a balancing act. He brought ‚power to the people‘ or at least has been perceived that way at that time by 50% of the people. The poor people in this kind of society are not THAT poor. That is the point. They can survive much better than in any other form of society. Prosperity and wealth distribution is a natural process. That process always starts with one human being greedy and more clever.ä than the competition. Btw: No taxes means no welfare is obviously wrong too. The donations of the super rich by far succeed all the welfare-tax-spendings.
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Jean-David Bar 2 months ago
Exactly. I am just waiting for a decent explanation of how this would be prevented feom happening. Every time I ask I get... silence. In today's world, capital = power, so unlimited capital = unlimited power (more or less). Trusts already lobby and pressure governments to kill competition. Would they stop killing competition if they had even less limits? Is it more likely thats for instance Apple and Google would be kinder to independent devs and comply with private justice or just establish their own justice?
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Jean-David Bar 2 months ago
Maybe it is not obvious, but many military interventions in history were lead by private capitalist companies pr rich men armiea. From civil wars in the Roman empire to colonisation of Central America, India, etc. and more recently western interventions on Africa serving private interest (intricated with geopolitical ones). Depending on the donations of the super rich is like depending on the will of kings... You do not agree? You loose it. This has also always happened in non capitalist contexts, but they are/were not anarchist.