OverclockedJesus Posted:

As for sweatshops: nothing wrong with them.

You got me there, I was mistaken in thinking that you were at all relying on people not being complete bumholes to each other at least to some degree. I guess for some reason I thought you were arguing that anarchocapitalism would benefit everyone but I guess you agree with Dobnits (Don’t think I forgot about you dobby Log in to see images!) and say “**** the poor” so long as it benefits those with money. I guess I just cannot agree with “**** the majority of the world” as a universal system of conduct.

OverclockedJesus Posted:

No, it isn’t. You cannot completely prevent competition except via legal fiat.

Because people are known for stringently following the law at all times. The government doesn’t create coercive monopolies just through legal fiat. It takes enforcement of said laws for it to work at all and I’m saying it’s absurd to say that just because it’s not written down somewhere doesn’t mean it cannot in principle be enforced in the same way. How often do people here complain about being banned for something that isn’t a rule written down somewhere? There is no special magical quality of influence that a government has that cannot be replicated through sheer financial power and if there is let’s hear it.

Edit: Almost forgot

OverclockedJesus Posted:

And yet these things happen because of government regulations.

No, they happen because a company does them, just because a government hadn’t planned for that contingency and/or made laws to prevent it from occurring doesn’t mean that it happened because of them. Using bans as an example again, it’s not BECAUSE of ET and JB not making a rule that people spam WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW in INCIT, it’s because people CHOSE to do that. It became a rule not to after the fact but they had no part in its occurring in the first place. The government didn’t force Wal-Mart to shut down their store when people tried to unionize, Wal-Mart executives decided that they would open up a can of worms by letting their workers unionize so they shut it down. The government had nothing to do with it at all.