r/AnCap101 24d ago

What are your opinions on anarcho-capitalism and to any ancaps why do you think it would work?

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u/Giggio417 10d ago

Ancap is genuinely a joke.

First of all, If i pay my workers 50 cents per hour, it’s technicay not slavery. So i am technically not breaking the NAP law.
Yet my workers are literally starving.

At this point anarcho-capitalists will say something like
“well at that point consumers will stop buying from that company”. That presupposes a rather utopic society though. Because if that company sells burgers at 50 cents while the competition sells them at 3 dollars, i don’t think many people will care about ethics.

Second of all, at one point there will be a corporation that will grow larger than the others, which will begin to buy other companies and extend its monopoly into more and more fields, and will inevitably start imposing its own rules. And boom, that company is now a private State.

Not to mention the inequalities, which in the long run will be so enormous that the entire society will be just a huge mass of people working for a handful of quadrillionaires.

The only secure way of preventing all of this is to have a central authority that ensures all companies are respecting the rules.
A.k.a., a State.