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Anarchy scales despite bad actors. It's hard to be the big boss hog when more than half the town refuses to sell to you or buy from you. How are you going to ma
by ladyattis 5y ago
Anarchy scales despite bad actors. It's hard to be the big boss hog when more than half the town refuses to sell to you or buy from you. How are you going to manage that? Go betweens? Good luck, you'll have to pay more. A gang of confederates? It's the few against the many. Anarchy in my opinion works because it doesn't have a central command structure, so it's hard to destroy the social order. It also means societies throughout it will radically diverge beyond their initial premise in many ways. The down side is obvious: it's slow as hell. But I'd rather have sluggish but resilient anarchy than the current state of things where we have social norms that justify a handful of people having a title claim to trillions of dollars worth of assets that they themselves can never direct nor consume.
- mc32 5y agoI don't think that is the case. The wild-west, Russia during Yeltsin, China in the 1900s, Somalian warlords. People would have no choice. They have to submit or else they may "rebel" and they may win, or they may lose but it will be a violent battle.
- goatlover 5y agoThis assumes enough people don't gravitate to strong charismatic leaders who turn into big bosses. That's happened plenty of times in history.
- sbierwagen 5y agoYou seem confident that society can survive bad actors. Would you like to post your home address right now, to test that theory?
- ladyattis 5y agoWow that's the silliest argument you can propose? Also, mailing addresses are easily bought from the USPS for junk mail purposes and yet no one is going around using them to go murder people en masse. So your theory is already invalidated by that fact. Please stop being such a Hobbesian pessimist. I mean I've seen far worse in my life than I'd like to admit just within my family but even that is still vanishingly rare in terms of occurrences. So keep on with your own pessimism but as someone who's literally survived decades of abuse I'll be a happy anarchist instead, it's much better than the alternative of constant paranoia and cynicism.
- Jensson 5y agoEvery kingdom was started by a bad actor who did exactly what you say is too improbable to worry about. Anarchy is so unstable that we don't even notice them before they devolve into some form of authoritarianism.
- thom 5y agoAs a great philosopher once said, "everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."