Milton Friedman said that good government is best-case thinking; we need to constrain government. David Friedman said that constrained government is best-case thinking; we need market-based anarchy. Patri and Brad say that market-anarchy is best-case thinking; no government will cede territory to let it happen.The whole bit is worth reading...and I agree thoroughly.
Friday, April 20, 2012
QoTD -- The Friedmans
Eric Crampton phrases it ever so well:
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The Cathedral will sink any seastead on some pretext should it actually look like a threat to their dominance. Galt's Gulch, pretty well by definition has to be a really low profile place.
Jehu,
It comes down to what one thinks is less likely? I think it's less likely that (long-term) a government (in any form) will be well-behaved towards it's citizens than that it will break a small independent nation (Singaporean). You seem to think the reverse.
I think that's an awful lot of the pro-freedom-monarchist-reactionary vs. LATNB-ite dispute. Which outcome is impossible, vs. which is just unlikely.
Aretae,
Singapore doesn't threaten the MO of the Cathedral. A libertarian seastead state does, and they'd realize it. I seem to recall a similar incident over an offshore platform that someone tried to make a nation of some years back. What was the name---Sealand---I think.
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