OverclockedJesus Posted:

I’ll take liberty over slavery any day.

And how pray tell would all of this work out in your mind? If profit hungry diamond cartels are socialist rather than capitalist, it would appear to me that you would connect any sort of power structure to a form of oppressive government yet capitalism would create a power structure within a vacuum as those with more ambition and less morals (The obviously superior people) fight their way to the top. In order for 6 billion people to manage day to day life, you would need an organizational structure to deal with all of the world’s resources which are not divided evenly across the globe.

It would seem to me that as these financial powers battled amongst themselves in this power vacuum (since we have no government in this supposition to say “Hey Wal-mart, don’t send a tank to destroy the neighboring Superstore in order to steal their customers”Log in to see images! they would have to defend themselves against military attacks with their own military eventually crafting out their own little territories. There might be invisible lines drawn up eventually to determine who owns where which would be sort of a tribal set up really, until enough power was gained to attain huge landmbumes. I suppose these areas could be called “countries” ran by these CEOs… Oh wait, this is sounding like a government. Of course you have a set up where a power vacuum would not create a power structure so I would love to hear it and be informed because I honestly cannot imagine a lack of government not being replaced by one barring a hippie-esque “let’s all work together” scenario.

Admittedly slavery is not the right word to use for the lower clbum in the industrial revolution as they were not owned and treated as property (unless they were a minority). Instead they were treated as a commodity, a tool to be used while it worked then thrown out and replaced when it broke. unions (a socialist notion, which obviously infringes on the freedoms of the factory owner to do as he pleases) were borne of this and demanded that people be treated with a modigreat times of respect. Is this allowed? Are people free to unionize? Or does this count as a freely entered into agreement between 2 parties?

You say you will take liberty over slavery any day yet I live in Canada and am perfectly free to do as I choose. I am free to come and go as I please (granted between countries is a bit more of a pain), I am free to work where I choose, learn if, when and where I choose, to bumociated with who I want. The “freedom” I’ve lost is the freedom to do buy/sell drugs or people, to wander around with weapons an shoot people or to drive 140km/h on the left side of the road through a school zone. What have I lost that would be gained by having corporations in power instead (and if money isn’t power in anarchocapitalism then I’m really confused about what we’re talking about)? Wouldn’t absolute freedom include the freedom to own slaves?

You’re quick to call me wrong and while I admit right here and now that I am not infallible, I have yet to hear any real alternative beyond “government no, capitalism yes”. Obviously this has to be based off of current political structure so please, if removing government will improve all of our lives, let us know how such a system would be organized. Obviously it would take a series of books to get a complete picture but I am of the belief that 3rd world diamond cartels represent anarchocapitalism where you believe that they represent socialism. We are on some rather different pages here.