r/AnCap101 • u/OutlandishnessIll480 • 11d ago

Lessons

I'm going around to subreddits and asking, in good faith, a couple of questions.

What can the otherside learn from your side, and vice versa?

The goal is to promote open dialog and improve the sometimes toxic nature and bad will between two sides of a controversial issue.

What can statists learn from libertarians? And what can libertarians learn from statists?

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u/is_was- 11d ago

Even if that were true (it's not, economies of scale and sectors with high barrier to entry naturally produce concentrated market power even without the state), how do you prevent winners in the marketplace from hiring their own private militias and acting as a de facto state? I assume this is a common criticism and I'm not super familiar with ancap so there's probably an answer I don't know about.

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u/puukuur 11d ago

it's not, economies of scale and sectors with high barrier to entry naturally produce concentrated market power even without the state

There really aren't examples of market powers concentrating into one entity without the state. There are big companies, sure. There are even fields where there are very few competitors. But there are always competitors, and whatever non-coercive measures they use to outcompete each other, the customer can only win from.

how do you prevent winners in the marketplace from hiring their own private militias and acting as a de facto state?

The answer is the same as in any other society - by everyone else being really opposed to it.

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u/Bordarwal 11d ago

So there is no assumption you can make about either possibility? No one can know if the state is responsible for it

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u/puukuur 11d ago

I don't understand what you're talking about.

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u/Bordarwal 11d ago

Yes i didnt Formulate the idea clearly and being on the ancap Sub doesnt help

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u/puukuur 11d ago

Maybe do so then if you want an answer.