Oh boy... Somalia again.
What I mean, is that you have military power, so you can force Chinese to buy your debts.
History shows that the team with the biggest guns (Think: Roman empire) is still quite vulnerable to debt. If the USSR in 1991 wasn't a good enough example for you, then think about the Roman empire, the Hapsburgs, or the Venetian empire... There are dozens of examples just since Jesus where the superpower of the world could rule with an iron fist but couldn't manage it's own finances. The USA is no different at all.
►Besides, you truly believe that China does not have debts?
You believe that the Chinese economy is healthy?
No. But It is very easy to believe that the chinese economy will outlast the us economy... It's growing, while ours is sinking fast.
See, I am not saying that any state will survive or is good, I am just saying having a state is better than having none.
See Somalia for a good example of modern day Anarchy (pre 2010, they got a gubmint now)
/facepalm again. This is the 2nd most tiring argument against voluntaryism that I know.
Don't you people have any clue how much fun we make at your expense across countless forums and facebook pages, specifically about "muh roads" and "muh somalia?" Go google those terms sometime... You'll see that you're the butt of a huuuuuge joke at your expense.
But since I think you're one of the better statists, I'll explain it one more time, just for you emp...
Somaila isn't violent because of the LACK of government... It's the external governments and the people trying to establish NEW governments that creates 100% of the violence. Their anarchic Xeer justice system works great, and was incredibly very similar to the anarchic justice system that survived in Medieval Ireland for over a thousand years.
Since governments have a vested interest in making you believe that anarchy is bad, it shouldn't come as any surprise that it would be portrayed that way in the media, tv shows, and hollywood.
It's simply untrue though. Anarchy is quite peaceful, and statism is provably violent... But you won't have anarchy just by removing the people currently in power; you must educate the masses to know what it is first, like Dreamache said above.
I love that analogy about burning down churches... It's a perfect metaphor for anarchy, ironically.
Oh, and if you'd like to sound more educated in the future when you talk about an anarchic society, the Medieval Irish would be a far more valid comparison:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su9OqvBbSD0]Ancient Ireland's success with the free market and a stateless society - YouTube[/ame]
"According to the report, the U.S. government owns:
- More than 900,000 separate real assets covering more than 3 billion sq. ft.
- Mineral rights, on and offshore, covering 2.515 billion acres of land, more than the total surface land in Canada
- 45,190 underutilized buildings, the operating costs of which are $1.66 billion annually
- Oil and gas resources on and offshore worth $128 trillion, roughly eight times the national debt of the country"
Can the U.S. Government's $128 Trillion Stockpile Ease Debt Problems? | TIME.com
While I can't deny they've got some assets on our balance sheet, I'm sure the soviets and the Ceasars likely did too... And like them, the USD economy is going downhill so fast that no amount of assets can save the USSA in the end unless we actually start trying to pay off those debts... Which is never, ever addressed in DC.
But how would you manage criminals?
There are already private prisons and private court systems and private arbitration that you can use today. There used to be quite a lot of private security too, but governments made that illegal over time.
How would you manage possible conflict with foreign countries?
With the internet, it would be quite hard to educate the USSA about anarchy without the rest of the world finding out about it too.
"National" defense could also be privatized. There is nothing at all that the free market cannot provide better than a government does... Excepting only violence.
A lot of the answers about defense in a free society are answered well in these two free ebooks:
http://mises.org/books/chaostheory.pdf
http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/books/FDR_5_PDF_Practical_Anarchy_Audiobook.pdf
...There are dozens more like these.
With torrents, you are dealing with much smaller fish. With crypto currency, you're dealing with the financial czars
Same Technology... Can't be stopped. Go lurn stuff.
Tech may have helped gotten us into a mess, but there is nothing saying that it can't be used to get us out of it.
If you think hardcore statists are brainwashed, tell me how this is not coming from someone brainwashed at the extreme opposite end
It's sad you had to be the first, Jacky. Even bluechinagroup and erifdekciw are not on my ignore list yet... Oh well; Gotta make room to read more open-minded thinkers.
What can we really do though...
