Someone told me that my idea of privatization of states is not libertarianism. It's ancap. I thought about it.
I thought I am a very moderate libertarian. Libertarians see governments as oppressors. I see governments as a very inefficient protectors. Libertarians see others as parasites (I used to be libertarians). I now see other people as defense pacts partners. So yes it is natural and fair that we care about what other voters think.
If they wanna a job, if they wanna prohibit weed, if they wanna have some religious influences, I would disagree with them. However, I do not consider them to be a very wrong evil being either. I also don't see that as an efficient deal among allies.
Libertarians see tax as robbery. I see tax as legitimate protection fee. If I don't like paying tax, I am welcome to move to another state.
Don't get me wrong. I still love libertarianism.
Libertarianism is a great ideology.
I think you can still call me a moderate libertarians.
Just look at legalization of drugs. If drugs are taxed and regulated instead of prohibited, a state doing it will collect tons of tax money. It will save a lot of money on this useless war on drugs.
Or look at prostitution. I don't like prostitutes. I understand prostitutes can spread disease and stuff. However, marriage sucks. I avoid anything infested by religion and governments. Just because I want to have kids, why should I give any fuck on what other people think "ideal" relationship is?
Or what about welfare? If there is no welfare programs, women will not pick the poor to father their babies. Poverty will be gone by themselves? What about those already born? Well pure libertarian solution is to just let them starve. If that's too hard to stomach, what about if we offer welfare on condition of sterilization? That'll greatly reduce poverties.
Or what about taxes? Like all libertarians, I don't like taxes, especially income taxes. What about if it's changed to simpler lower taxes? The economy will boom. Corporations will flock to register in places with 0 taxes.
On many other areas, I am not sure I am a libertarian.
I think it's okay if governments build road. Transaction cost of road is high and it's best for governments to just compute the cost carefully and charge those who benefit from it fairly.
I don't think every interaction has to be consensual. If a doctor see an unconscious people and help him, it's fine for government to charge the patient.
The problem with statism is that there are so many ways to abuse statism. Markets have flaws. However, often, state solution is even worse. However, just like free market can theoretically solve the same problem better than state solutions, state solutions can be better than the market.
I do not think it's wrong for government to prohibit truly harmful drugs. However, when government have power to prohibit some drugs, the government will be lobbied by money and the drugs that are prohibited are the safe ones.
The problem is who decides when states should do it or when the market should do it? Now it's voters.
Why not let the market decide?
Yes. Libertarian-ism and their variants or at least something closer to it are good ideology, if you judge ideologies based on result.
There is one problem.
An ideology that is adopted is not necessarily
an ideology that produces the best result.
Let me repeat that again.
Many libertarians think that capitalism and libertarianism gives good result.
They complain, lament.
They said socialism is good if you judge them based on promise. However, Capitalism is awesome when you judge them based on
result. I think there is a libertarian quote on that. I forget the actual one. Can you add.
That's true.
However, result is only 30% of the game when it comes to ideological war or competition.
Look at North and South Korea. Everyone can see that capitalism gives better "result" in South Korea.
However, socialism,
in a sense, won in North Korea.
Ideologies don't win by result alone. Ideologies win by being convincing and promising.
Capitalism give far better result. And yet, it's socialism, that win in North Korea and Venezuella. Think about it for a while. Socialism wins because it has better promise.
We may say that capitalism is winning all over the world. North Korea and Venezuela is an exception. However, can't we win faster?
How many people have to eat their own shit and starve due to communism before the capitalism "win"?
How many life have to die in religious war before secularism win?
How many people have to rot in jail due to war on drugs before people realize the obvious fact that most prohibited drugs are not even dangerous?
Imagine if penicilin is not approved by government fast enough. Millions would die. Now, every drug have to go through very long approval protest. Can a small state decide, fuck the approval, I wanna let patients make well informed decisions to be guinea pig. Then millions of life can be save.
But progress toward capitalism is slow. Every body knows that weed is not dangerous. It took what? 30 years before it's legalized in some states. Many other drugs are also not dangerous and it'll take 50 other years.
If it's legalized, I bet the result is great, but we'll probably never know. Very few states try to legalize it.
We capitalists should know. Often it's not the best product that sells a lot. In fact, many people fall into various scam. Often products that sell are the one with the best promise, and not the one that actually will produce the best result.
I talked to a muslim friend. I asked what does he think about all the corruption in muslim countries? He told me that it's not islam's fault. It's the corrupt people's fault. So, he still wants islamic government.
I was surprised with how he thinks. So basically there is this result where muslim countries tend to be more corrupt. That is expected by any countries that jail good governors and stifle freedom of speech.
However, that guy still support islamic ideologies because they think the fault is not in the ideology.
I think think. At first I thought that this guy is very crazy. After a while, I understand that it's just how people are.
People simply do not pick the ideology with the best result or that will produce the best result. Hell, if I can pick stocks that will raise up the fastest, I am already a trillionaire now. I don't pick stocks that will raise up fast. I pick stocks that
I think will raise fast. Sometimes the difference is big. He he he....
So it doesn't matter how awesome capitalism is. It doesn't matter how awesome the prosperity that capitalism win. Capitalism cannot win just counting on result. For an ideology to win, that ideology must be able to give good promise and convince large number of people.
You can say that porn is great. You can show how fast our internet now thanks to huge demand in porn streaming. Another screaming Allah is great will convince enough people to prohibit porn.
It's just like that. Your opinion can be true. Their opinion is more convincing.
So if you want libertarianism or any best ideology to actually win ideological wars, you need a system that is more result oriented. You need a system that ideologies that win are ideologies deliver.
Are there such system?
Of course. It's called free market.
Under free market, result is also not everything. Scams are around and stuffs. However, facts and results have more bites under market mechanism than democracy.
I would say, under free market, truth and result constitute like 80% of success rather than just 20-30% in ideological war.
As customers, I wouldn't buy a specific brand if the brand don't deliver. Shits that don't work get screwed very quickly under market mechanism.
Any share holders that make correct decisions, install the right CEO, will be rich. Any share holders that make bad decisions will lost money. Any share holders that disagree can just sell the share.
Free market are not only good for share holders they are good for customers too. Hell, customer is king is not an empty word.
Anyone producing something no body wants to buy will go bankrupt by it self. In fact, the beauty of free market is that each firm doesn't have to please every body. If I produce porn for normal heterosexual males, what about the homosexual men? Well, they can have their own porn website.
We do not need to argue whether McDonald is more delicious than Burger King. Those who like McDonald can go to McDonald and those who like Burger King goes to burger king.
Free market is very result oriented. It doesn't matter whether whose fault is it. The one that make the correct decisions will be the one prosperous.
For best ideologies to be practiced, we need a system where results matter more. We need a system like free market for ideologies.
Under free market business are allowed to do things their own way. If I buy a specific machine for my factory, I do not need to convince other factory owners that my choice is the best choice. I just buy it. If it's a good decision I am rich. If it's a bad decision, I will be out of business.
We need to have something like that too for local state governments. We should let local governments to experiment. Then we need to ensure that those who make decisions on those local governments should be the one rewarded based on the success of the decisions.
What about the interest of tax payers and the other populations?
The market will take care of it.
If I produce ice cream, and I produce ice cream that sucks, people won't buy it.
The same way if tax is too high, crime rate is high, if the government prohibit too many things, then tax payers and people will flee to another state.
At the end, the market itself, that works so well on private sector, will also works well in governments.
In fact, huge amount of prosperity that we enjoy now happens because states behaves more like private companies. States compete with one another. Hence, tax is lower, tariff is lower, and the productive gets richer and richer. So people are productive.
We do not need to promote libertarian-ism directly.
We need only people to try what they think is good. Keep a good score on what's working and not working. Reward those that choose what's working.
The best ideology will win.
And I bet that's not far from libertarianism/capitalism.
And that is why I propose privatization of provinces and cities.
CDZ - Why I think the state itself should be more like private companies
Oh yea. Libertarianism is also sucks at 2 other things too. Politic and military. No wonder libertarians hate politicians and war. So? Just pay protection money to a normal powerful state. Avoid this mistake okay
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