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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
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holy **** why didn't I think of that? In that case argument over.
We're talking about a companey thats attained such a level of power and money it can afford to drive out competitors by any means needed. Post WWII we have the oil companies bombing trolly car lines in Ohio. Walmart is constantly accused of destroying mom and pop stores.
And the people have the ability everytime. And they do nothing. Microsoft and Google are poised to rule the planet, and whos to stop them?
You underestimate the power of comfort.
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You are talking about companies under a mixed economy. I am talking about total capitalism where anything goes. This means a company could go up and down really quickly. The people's demand will change over time and if one company is starting to make to much, then you switch PDAs (public defense agencies.) This would cause a mass amount money to move from one company to many others. AS long as this money doesn't diffuse too much, then it should be fine. It won't diffuse too much though because everyone will want the same thing, protection. They are going to want the best, or a company that will give them more rights. See, when you sign up for a PDA you make a contract demanding your rights. You barter for the most amount of rights you can get. If they don't give it to you then you demand to go to another company. Then they will either let you go or give you your rights.
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Because the precursor to a good debate is good resources. Wikipedia is NOT a good resource. If it's "extremely elitist" of me to reject wikipedia as a viable source, it's extremely plebeian of you to encourage it's use.
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There was a study done by Nature where Encyclopedia Britannica contained three errors per article. Wikipedia contained about four. Now if EB is acceptable, then that is total hypocrisy. By denying sources that are edited by the people you are saying that the smart people will always be right. Well, Phrenology was believed to be true because the smart people were smart and no one should object. Well it was later proven wrong.
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I was a member of my schools debate club, yo. I got crazy mad credentials.
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Yeah, well you have yet to bring up an intelligent point against anarcho-capitalism so I really don't know where those came from.
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Then why not suggest those as the sources instead? I am, of course, assuming that you yourself have read these books?
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I haven't actually read them. I have Machinery of Freedom coming up on my reading list. The point is that both the wikipedia source and the other source were based off of these books.
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I didn't really understand this concept. In reading through, it said that it basically wanted to do away with government, with the exception of police, courts, and judges, and it seemed to suggest those would be funded by the free market, since there aren't taxes, which would create an endless amount of police corruption. Their only incentive would be to make money, by constantly fining and arresting people for stuff they didn't even do.
Also, without taxes, you could still have water in the free market, although the highly sophisticated process of dillusion, and water testing, things of that nature may no longer be as viable. How would you control sewage? There's no money in that. How would we build roads? We would have no incentive, since they don't make money, unless they instituted an outrageously expensive toll system.
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Well, the police, courts, and judges would be paid for by the companies. That is the problem, which I mentioned earlier. Without one written document of law it will be hard to uphold the law because everyone's rights will be different. With computer's changing, this may change though. I don't agree with the police corruption. This is because the companies will not want to pay the police for their work because the companies will want more money. At the same time. they will want a good reliable police force so that it will be an incentive for someone to sign with them.
As for roads and sewage systems, they would all be privatized. I don't see how this would be such a problem either. The big thing to remember is that this is a TOTALLY free market, unlike the US's mixed economy. If someone charges a high toll for the road then some other company, in order to make money, will build a similar road with a less price to cross. This means the other company will need to lower there price to get more money. It's the same thing with sewage.
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Also, in the critique, it said something about needing to be protected against the protectors. I'm not sure exactly what it was talking about. What is this system's policy with advocating and handling war? Sorry, I got tired reading that and couldn't understand all of it.
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War will be somewhat unlikely under this system, but it could happen. See a war, if it were to happen, would most likely happen when to companies go on trial against each other because a client of one violated the property (rights) of the other. If one of the companies does not give in to a deal from the other and they can't compromise, then you have war. The only thing is, why would these companies really want to fight? They will end up losing money if they do and fall in the market. Since it could cost them their company, they will most likely not have a war.