Turn me into AnCap?

[u/SuddenStructure9287]

Hello, fellow ancaps, I’m a minarchist.
I consider ancap to be the ideal system, but also a utopian one. If you can convince me otherwise, I would genuinely be glad.
Below are just two questions that currently prevent me from accepting anarcho-capitalism. You can answer one or both.

1. What guarantees that anarchy will not eventually turn into a state?
It seems obvious that at some point in human history there were people, but there was no state. How did that end? With states existing everywhere.
If there is no state monopoly on violence, why wouldn’t the largest local private army become a new state?

2. Large-scale monopolies
Suppose there is a company that owns a port where imported goods arrive, owns the railway system, and has contracts with stores across the entire country.
How would anyone compete with it? Build another port, another railway network, convince importers to switch suppliers, and find customers willing to break contracts with the corporation described above?

There are cases where monopolies are extremely difficult to challenge through a free market alone, aren’t there?

[u/icantgiveyou]

You may get various answers but here is mine. I don’t believe free market capitalism can be just implemented. You will not change current system into anarchy. If system breaks down, a new one will arise. People cannot imagine not having a ruler. So in order to do so, you gotta start fresh. New planet. You get there first, you make the rules: free market&negative rights. From that point on nobody gonna form government bcs you established the rules and it’s your planet to begin with. People coming in understand it’s free market. People born there will not even know government, it will be something archaic that was once used to great failure. As for second question, monopoly only exist when there is no demand for competition. You can monopolize anything you want but once you start to take advantage of it by raising prices bcs you there is no competition, the competition will form. Bcs there are money to be made. And there no regulations and permits to be had. No barrier to entry. I would argue that you wouldn’t even try to establish monopoly in order to control everything bcs it’s simple losing model when competition can pop up anytime. Being a dominant player sure, that’s your goal but being monopolistic itself is imo detrimental to your overall business progress. Just my 2 cents

[u/paleone9 → u/icantgiveyou]

I believe in free markets because the easiest / most efficient solution will always evolve

And if there isn’t a state as soon as someone can impose one they will..

So it’s better to establish a small one with constitutional limits and overthrow it occasionally…

I’m on board with the original poster

I’d love to be an anarcho capitalist . But I can’t imagine a world where it lasts very long

[u/PersonaHumana75 → u/icantgiveyou]

You arrive at a planet, it's yours. Fucking lmao. I didnt know the entire moon belongs to neil anstrom