Banks used to issue their own script and in principle anyone could do it. The trouble with anarcho-capitalism is that there's nothing to prevent a group from organizing, forming a "government", raising an army a conquering people around them. In fact that's exactly the arc of history. If you want anarchy you can go to Syria or Somalia right now.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > Banks used to issue their own script and in principle anyone could do it. > > And that system worked very well for a long time. > The trouble with anarcho-capitalism is that there's nothing to prevent a > group from organizing, forming a "government", raising an army a conquering > people around them. > Where will a Private Protection Agency get the money to build a army to do that when it looses all it's paying customers? And you can't give me a iron clad guarantee that the US Army won't take over and establish a military dictatorship, I don't think they will but the odds of that happening are much greater than the odds a rogue Private Protection Agency will metastasize and take over. The odds of neither is zero but one is much larger than the other. > If you want anarchy you can go to Syria or Somalia right now. That's chaos, I'm talking about anarchy. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
