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So...what if ADT decides that instead of paying multiple other companies to deal with this, they just...don't deal with it? They just file a report (or say they did) and continue taking money for "protection" despite doing nothing?

I guess this ancap's response would be "Marie would just switch to a competitor" but what if she's locked into a contract and can't do that? She would be at best blacklisted and unable to hire any security firms due to being "unreliable" and at worst ADT would take the money owed by force. Who would she call to stop the security company? The security company security, who exist to protect people from security company overreach? What if they aren't legit? It would just be security companies all the way down. Or you know, warlords, because that's effectively what this is, just with a sleek corporate logo.

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Sounds like owning nothing and being happy.

"Just trust porky bro"

Proceeds to describe insurance, something infamous for being completely useless (and some you are required by law to subscribe to).

This is sincere isn't it? Somebody sincerely made this.

Walter Robs Marie. Walter is very rich and pays Marie's protection company to look the other way. In fact, Walter owns all protection companies and uses his wealth and power to pillage the wealth of others and destroy any competition before it can challenge him.

Law without government is when you have various Yakuza families arbitrate large scale protection rackets. But kiryu never shows up. Everyone's just Mine from Yakuza 3 except worse (and that guy knocked down an orphanage)

Without government Marie's might is right, she pays a ganger to whack Walter. Problem solved.

Ancaps invent government but much worse

You can literally subscribe to a protection company right now who will back down instead of facing the "enormous cost" of war with the federal government. Freedom!

Sweet Jesus, its like they thought Snow Crash was a manual or something.

What's stopping ADT and Ring from just having their own turfs that they agree they stay in and robbing anyone who lives in their turf to make them pay for their services?

This reminds me of coworkers explaining how microservices would make our monolith faster.

My favorite part of this is payment with what? Without a government to back currency there is no money. There's a reason Milei is attempting to put Argentina on the dollar and it's because an-caps are completely bankrupt ideologically they get so tied up in their little privatization schemes that they don't even bother dealing with the fundamental underpinnings of the system.

Genuinely just a clumsy and even-more-extractive version of feudalism. They claim that there is no government, but what are these companies if not competing governments? Just because they are "private" doesn't mean they aren't if we are to say that governments are a sociological phenomenon and not just "a thing some bodies call themselves"

Sure am glad that all actors always have equal power in every interaction. I mean, can you imagine?

This all sounds great, but what's the catch?