FM Corporations/ businesses/ entitities

[Sean Lynch]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:11 PM juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sean Lynch wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 10:51:30 +1000
> > > Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > even if those institutions are entirely
> > > > > voluntary. I can imagine sets of institutions that would allow
> > > > > corporations in a similar sense to how they exist now, i.e.
> > > > > limited liability and some form of "personhood."
> > > >
> > > > 'limited liability' means that the owners of the company cannot be
> > > > personally sued.
> > >
> > >
> > >         Yes. And the idea that a libertarian society or a truly free
> > >         market is going to copy mercantilistic devices from the
> > > 'ancien regime' is unwarranted.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure it's more unwarranted than the assumption that
> > mercantilistic devices are always the wrong ones.
>
>
>         Are we talking about the same thing? Mercantilism is the system
>         in which business and government cooperate to loot consumers.
>
>         From a libertarian point of view mercantilism (or corporatism if
>         you will) is wrong, 'by definition'.
>

Yes, but when you say "mercantilistic device" I think "device used by
mercantilism," not "device that is inherently mercantilistic by its
nature". If you mean the latter, I don't think the generic concept of a
corporation qualifies, since it's just "a group of people who have chosen
to operate as a single entity and are recognized as such under some legal
system, voluntary or otherwise".


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> >
> >
> > >         I'm not surprised that Sean said that though, since Sean
> > > has a rather 'naive' view about current fascist 'institutions' like
> > >         apple, facebook, uber, the tor project and other jewels from
> > >         the establishment's crown.
> > >
> >
> > My view has been slowly shifting toward a more left anarchist one.
> > But it can only go so far before I have to quit my job at Google to
> > avoid feeling like too much of a hypocrite.
>
>         Haha - thanks for the disclaimer =P
>
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