Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

On Wed, 22 May 2024 08:37:51 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

I can just imagine the street battles as each side hires/forms its own
security company to enforce what it wants enforced and prevent it from
being forced to do what it doesn't want to do.

Yes. This _should_ be obvious, but I am aware, from discussions in the
forums at Big Head Press, that anarcho-capitalists will go to great
lengths to claim that a system with private security agencies and
private arbitrators, but no over-arching authority could be made to
work.

If one has an armed populace, and a strong social consensus that the
initiation of force, and fraud, and all other forms of aggression are
bad, I suppose that hired goons who call themselves security agencies,
and phony arbitrators, _could_ be dependably dealt with by good old
lynch law. So instead of some aspiring dictator being the head of the
democratically elected government, one avoids that danger by making
the ultimate arbitrator... mob rule. And not "mob" as in organized
crime.

Other than lynch law being the court of last resort, however, I see
absolutely no way to make a Libertarian utopia work.

John Savard