“While it is possible that one hundred parasites may lead a comfortable life on the products of one thousand hosts, one thousand parasites cannot live off of one hundred hosts. Based on the recognition of this fact, it would appear possible to persuade a majority of the voters that it is adding insult to injury to let those living off of other peoples’ taxes have a say in how high those taxes are, and to thus decide, democratically, to take the right to vote away from all government employees and everyone who receives government benefits, weather they are welfare recipients or government contractors.”
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
In front of you are two buttons: one red, one blue.
For every % that selects the red button, all taxes (and spending) permanently reduced by that percentage.
If more than 50% of people select the blue button, a fully Ancap society is created. Otherwise, the presses are wasted.
Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.
@ajykumar2 This is true, however, as Sowell notes in Basic Economics, there is also an inverse of this as well. As companies grow they do other things less efficiently.
This allows small firms to outcompete large firms.
@demsocjohnbrown The capitalist class is not exploitative. They produce their wealth, and use their inherited wealth to produce more.
The state just extracts.
Marx would have been an Ancap. He got all the mechanisms wrong, attacking the bourgeoisie instead of the non-productive class, and we still suffer from his economic misconceptions today.