Economic Freedom vs Social justice

[tylerdurden]

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Can you give me an example of a modern society that didn't regulate its economy?

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Haven't you heard about this stateless utopia?

Unfortunately, some statist tyrants are trying to form a 'government' (read = dictatorship) to put an end to the legitimate business interests of the pirates, who routinely receive upwards of $500k per ship they capture. No one has the legitimate right to tell these buccaneers what to do - the statists are merely trying to supplant the pirate's legitimate business with their own brand of state-run fascist piracy, i.e. TAAAXXEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How unjust. Blackbeard must be rolling over in his grave.

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The Somalia strawman has been repeatedly debunked.

The main problem with the "Somalia shows that anarchy is bad" argument is that it ignores the huge elephant in the room - the fact that the government that was there before was unable to maintain order to begin with.

There are failed states all over the place - but you don't see any anarchists claiming that their existence shows that statism itself is inherently doomed to collapse.

Comparisons between Somalia's anarchy and US representitive democracy as a stand-in for comparisons between anarchy and representative democracy are inherently flawed, and anyone who thinks about it for five seconds can see why.

Comparisons between Somalia and its neighbors, comparisons where the starting conditions are much more similar, are more interesting (though not completely unflawed). Even the world bank has had to admit that Somalia has made huge leaps forward compared to other similar nations since the government disappeared. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than it was? Undoubtedly. Are there criminals and abusers? Of course.

You show your ignorance when you mockingly call somalia a Utopia. No anarchist has ever claimed that anarcho-capitalism is utopian.

In case you didn't know, there are (and have been) pirates in other parts of the world, areas with actual, functioning governments. Yet the pirates persist. Wow. You mean that government doesn't magically make pirates instantly disappear?