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Originally Posted by Spectre X
Who would demand half of everything you own.
Per member.
At the very least.
And if you'd tell them that you didn't need protection, well...
Have you ever heard of the mafia at all? Protection money, maybe?
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Any PDA demanding half of everything its constituents own would quickly collapse in a competitive market environment. The mafia is a racket; rackets cannot succeed in a free market. In fact, a prime piece of rhetoric used by market anarchists has been to compare the mafia to the State - both are protection rackets that extort property for the "services" they provide.
Don't you realize that the defining aspect of a State is a territorial monopoly on the use of force maintained through coercion?