OverclockedJesus Posted:

If you don’t trust capitalism without a government, how can you trust a government? Governments are coercive expropriating territorial monopolies. How can that be anything but bad?

How can that be any worse than coercive financial monopolies? At very least with a government there they can be slowed down in their bid to screw over the populace for their own gain. The industrial revolution was the closest we’ve ever really gotten to pure laissez faire capitalism, and the lower clbum were slaves. Nowadays if you look at rebels in 3rd world countries who gain enough power to control and fight over diamond mines they are anarchocapitalists if anything.

The governments are in such turmoil that they can do nothing about these self contained military groups which finance themselves through such fun things as blood diamonds. They don’t seek territory beyond resources, they don’t tax, they don’t work on social aspects within a region. They are businessmen. They live without law to simply make money. I’ve gotta say I’ll take health care and emergency services provided by an inefficient government that screws us out of a chunk of our earnings above being forced to work myself to death in a diamond mine for a cartel.