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frevaljee@kbin.social 11 months agoOh yes, an ideology defined by private ownership and small government intervention is also somehow responsible for the basis of government intervention - taxes.
Comment on x last night
frevaljee@kbin.social 11 months agoOh yes, an ideology defined by private ownership and small government intervention is also somehow responsible for the basis of government intervention - taxes.
explodicle@local106.com 11 months ago
They don’t actually believe in small government intervention at all - they want the goverment to enforce private property rights and then just tax a little back, below the cost of bringing it into production.
The big lie is that private property is natural, and thus its enforcement is small.
frevaljee@kbin.social 11 months ago
A government which only enforces private property rights is still significantly smaller than most alternatives.
Enforcement of private property rights is a part of virtually all governments, and then you pile all other stuff on top of that hence making the government bigger.
And ofc the taxes will be below the profits, no sane person would make any investments in anything if it was above the profits.
explodicle@local106.com 11 months ago
But I’m comparing against socialism, not against most capitalist countries. We don’t need to encourage investment where the factors of production are owned by the workers themselves.
The ancaps illustrate my point - it’s absolute monarchy that they falsely claim is anarchy.
frevaljee@kbin.social 11 months ago
I don't think I follow your reasoning tbh. What exactly are you comparing? You said that capitalists favour intervening governments, which is simply not true. Not in any general sense anyway.
Anarcho capitalism is probably as far into anarchy you can go. They want to completely abolish the state and enforce property rights privately.
Or are you saying that such a society will fall into some kind of feudalism? At the core of anarcho capitalism is the NAP which is not really compatible with feudalism. In feudalism you have a hierarchy not based on voluntarism, and that would therefore not be anarcho capitalist.
Do you imply that we need a strong state with a monopoly on violence to keep us in check, otherwise we would descend into chaos? Thats a pretty bleak and pessimistic view of mankind.