On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote: >>If you and I are in a business relationship and we both make money it >> would be foolish of me to cheat you on a deal, I might make a little more >> money today but having destroyed our partnership I will have lost the money >> I would have made tomorrow and in all future days. In addition if I gain a >> reputation of having cheated my partner nobody else is going to want to do >> business with me. >> >> > there a number of ways by means of which a rational agent can obtain > much more by exploiting others than by means of trade. >
Yes, if I am just just passing through town and I am unlikely to ever do business with you or anybody else in town again then it might be rational for me to cheat you. > To make things stable you need something more. That is where Private Protection Agencies come in. I am not so naive as to suggest that force would never be needed in Anarcho-Capitalism, I'm just saying that less of it would be needed than in any other system I know of. For example, for our present system to work force or the threat of force is ALWAYS needed to collect taxes. 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.
