I've been aware of anarcho capitalism for a while but I'm still learning and trying to fully understand it. To me it seems that the main issue is that of subverters in a society and how to deal with them. For example let's say that the state of Oklahoma became it's own anarcho capitalist nation. If that happened now then every immoral corporatist would be falling all over themselves to setup shop there and then soon we would probably end up with them colluding, similar to how they have done with covid, to create all kinds of mischief for regular people living there. It seems to me that this type of collusion where corporations could essentially collude and effectively "become" a government is the main danger. With strong borders though you could set rules that, yes we are anarcho capitalist but certain actions taken at large scale to collude would result in expulsion from the territory?
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Ancap is not so fragile. Local businesses are capitalists too. I presume you believe they are small because they are not greedy enough and therefore they would not form a government. I had to deprogram this out of myself. Collusion is possible in a free market as far as I understand but strong borders would only prevent people from joining. Also where is the free market in lack of movement?
The answer to collusion may be more capitalism.
Well to me it seems like there couldn't be an ancap country with open borders unless the whole world was ancap because otherwise you would have people coming in attempting to overthrow the country and change to a different form of government, that's the main hangup I keep coming back to when I think about it. Basically to me the biggest danger with ancap seems to be the constant fear / threat of a government somehow managing to take hold, however it happens.
how could the country be overthrown if there is no structure to overthrow? Also people are at a greater liberty to defend themselves arguably. I think ancap is slightly more robust than that.
Ok right I think that's what it comes down to, being able to defend the area by any means necessary and have people willing to do it