I agree but I am biased. Nothing prevents the an-socs from adding some elements that look like cheats to me but just look like stabilizers to them, e.g. spontaneous confiscation of projects that look too capitalist.
And the ancap idea has some sources of instabilities as well, e.g. invasive external states, internal psychopaths and busybodies, etc.
An intermediate step between the status quo and actually knowing how these ideas work in practice would be something like charter cities or economic zones, places that escape most of the restrictions of the state without having a fully developed immune system against psychopathy and invasion.
The trick is to find a way to get states to tolerate such developments, which are lose-lose propositions for states, Embarrassing if they fail and worse if they succeed.
So the question becomes, can such social experiments proceed somehow without approval from the state? Bitcoin and the internet are perhaps pieces of the solution, indicating the vague shape of an approach.
I have yet to see a minarchist socialist who believes the state’s job is to require businesses to keep being worker owned and that’s it.
Anarcho-socialists all just happen to support everything hyper-progressive “democratic socialists” and “social democrats” do.
How does your anarcho-capitalism differ from David Friedman's?
I agree but I am biased. Nothing prevents the an-socs from adding some elements that look like cheats to me but just look like stabilizers to them, e.g. spontaneous confiscation of projects that look too capitalist.
And the ancap idea has some sources of instabilities as well, e.g. invasive external states, internal psychopaths and busybodies, etc.
An intermediate step between the status quo and actually knowing how these ideas work in practice would be something like charter cities or economic zones, places that escape most of the restrictions of the state without having a fully developed immune system against psychopathy and invasion.
The trick is to find a way to get states to tolerate such developments, which are lose-lose propositions for states, Embarrassing if they fail and worse if they succeed.
So the question becomes, can such social experiments proceed somehow without approval from the state? Bitcoin and the internet are perhaps pieces of the solution, indicating the vague shape of an approach.