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Originally Posted by Chojin

Monopolies would form and someone would come out dominant, and they would become dictator. Human nature is what it is, and your society couldn't exist with it as an x factor.

What makes you say that? The first part, that is.

Money is a controlling force for people only because it commands power. People who wanted more power would hang out with like-minded individuals and get said power whether it was immediately 'profitable' (which it would be anyway) or not.

You're missing the point. If you're losing revenue dramatically, you won't be able to sustain a conflict with those who are gaining it. You'll lose.

Further, why would you need to get a bank loan to start an army? That's retarded, did the US get a bank loan to fight the revolutionary war? The civil war? All you need are material resources, time, and people on your side. Even assuming that everyone magically started from zero with no resources, it isn't exactly hard to make a gun or bullets.

The bank loan was merely a possible counter to the point that revenue would be lost when the PDA's constituents left for greener pastures. I was trying to show why that wouldn't solve anything.

This society would have the most hit-and-runs ever. People would just loot someplace then run to the next town, where they're no longer a criminal. Unless your Public Displays of Affection had franchises. In which case, they'd begin to form monopolies. Ipso facto rectum. Obligatory insult.

1) Many anarcho-capitalists think that vigilante justice is a better alternative to large PDAs, and as such would probably support hit-and-runs against aggressors.

2) Just because they might have franchises doesn't indicate that they might form monopolies, and even if they did, only monopolies who maintain that position through coercion are illegitimate.

Originally Posted by mburbank

There's a really great experimental anarchy going on right now in New Orleans. They're practically crying out for a clove smoking, epee wielding make out artist to lead them. I wish you get down there.

My anarcho-primitivist friend and I were having a discussion about this. We decided that we're going to form a biker gang down there - we'll ride Jesus bikes, so to speak; they can run on water, you see - and we're going to manipulate competing anarchist factions there to our benefit. We're also going to get some looser bitch to make a documentary. The communists use sickles and hammers as weapons, the capitalists wear top hats and smoke cigars, and the primitivists use feces catapults. Our gang's symbol is an inverted cross made to look like a middle finger; we're devotes of Maddox's secret magnum opus. I fall in love the tranny leader of the primitivists, who happens to wear an eyepatch. There's also a commie orgy scene, not to mention the theoretical debate carried in ebonics. It ends with us spreading oil all over the water in New Orleans, and me setting it aflame from the helicopter with my ass and a lighter.

We're also going to market this as a MMORPG.