A business could do well by catering to low income people at a low
price especially if there are a lot of them, if there are just a few
of them there stll could be a market, plus a group of low income
people could join forces for a security co-op maybe donating labor in
place of money part or much of the time. If they rent it is often
likely the owner would provide security as say a mall and hotel does
today to renters and guest. Plus I think there still would be
pleanty of people like you and me who would be willing to donate
money or time to provide security to the poor just as there we would
be willing to provide a donation of food to those in need. Being that
people are likely to have more income and or time due to the lack of
taxes and government regulations I think a lot more money will be
given to
charity.
Charles Murray wrote in one book how when the welfare state
really took off the growth of charity giving as a percentage of total
income dropped while previously it had steadly increased as average
incomes increased. He has an interesting twist against the
prisoner dilema game theory, he said that people gave more because
they fiqured it would not get done unless they did
give.
Still I think keeping in place public institutions for courts,
police and defense are a very good rational idea but I also think
that taxes are unnecessary because if you don't have enough people to
give to suuport these rational public institutions then what is the
point of taxes you don't have enough honest people to run the
government anyway, it would be better for the few rational honest
people to keep their money and time and make their own private
deals.
Their is a theory, I think a very misguided theory that only a
few are honest and rational enough to lead and operate a government,
that the vast majority of people( over 95% it would seem) don't know
what is good for them so they need the very few honest rational elite
to tell the vast majority what to do which would include taxing them
to suuport government. A few of these elitist theorist think the US
constitution and the state constitution should be forced on the
majority of people or some sort of unconstitutional Hedgmony
Americanism even if the elites have to use force or fraud to make it
so but their system over such a large area is very costly when it is
a failure or when it
suceeds.
Hans Hoope has for the most part the better elitest idea that
most people would be much better off with a lot of little kingdoms
and owner run indepedent towns and villages than what we have today
in the US and Western Europe, larger defense needs could be taken
care off by joint efforts of local security and local miltia with
other towns as well as private for profit security companies funded
by insurance companies. There are several things I don't like about
his idea but I do think the vast majority of people would be better
off and secure with such a system than we are now.With such a variet
of indepedent governments in a close distance most of us would have
more choices over the type of communities we wanted to live or work
in.--- In [email protected], "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, but those who can't afford to hire security and aren't strong
> enough to protect their own property don't get to have justice eh?
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], <boyd.w.smith@> wrote:
> >
> > From: Paul <ptireland@>
> > > Which is pretty much the case. If there were no government to
protect
> > > your private property ownership, you could only keep what you
could
> > > defend, and there will always be someone bigger, stronger, and
tougher
> > > than you who can take what's yours and in anarchy, you'd have no
> > > recourse when they did other than some sort of vigilante
justice with
> > > a lynch mob or something.
> >
> > Of course that completely ignores the fact that you could hire
> security to protect you life and property and that without the
> government stealing your property and corrupt police not doing the
> jobs that they are paid to do, you could afford Brinks, Sonitrol, or
> whomever to be the police for you, and it would be much more
efficient
> and customer responsive than what we have today.
> >
> > And in anarcho-capitalism there would be much more wealth to go
> around and much less incentive to engage in violence.
> >
> > BWS
> >
>
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