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[Kurt Buff]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:47 PM, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:08:00PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Kevin Gallagher
>> <kevin.gallagher at nyu.edu> wrote:
>> > Thanks to everyone for your replies!
>> >
>> > On Jul 11, 2017 9:16 PM, "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Kevin Gallagher
>> > <kevin.gallagher at nyu.edu> wrote:
>> >> Here is where I start to have questions. To my understanding, anarchy is
>> >> the
>> >> rejection of heirarchies. Isn't anarcho-capitalism therefore an oxymoron?
>> >
>> > No, anarcho-capitalism is grounded in the understanding that free
>> > trade among free people is a the only road to peace and prosperity.
>> > People arrange themselves in hierarchies all the time, and it's no
>> > crime if they do so freely.
>> >
>> >
>> > For the life of me I can't think of any heirarchies that aren't, at least in
>> > part, founded on deceit or force (or both). Can you please give an example
>> > of one?
>>
>> Go into almost any small business with a few employees. By small, I
>> mean under 500 employees. If the employees are happy, you have your
>> answer.
>
> Just because someone is happy at their work, doesn't mean they
> aren't a wage slave.
>
> "Anarcho-capitalism" has more in common with fascism and post-industrial
> feudalism than any real ideal of freedom and life without coercion.
> For a fair idea of how it might play out, just look back 150 years
> to the gilded age - the government was a fuck of a lot smaller, the
> masses were dirt fucking poor, and they were kept that way by private
> squads of pinkertoon goons hired by the bosses. This is
> "anarcho-capitalism".

You have a dim and rather confused vision of history.

Kurt