Oddbean new post about login | logout If you raise chickens, and I grow vegetables. With the barter system we'd both be able to make chicken noodle soup. The moment any form of money gets in-between, it all goes to shit and one person is free to make stupid choices that don't benefit themselves or others.
This is the way.... Lucky to live in a semi rural area with large homesteading contingent. Swapping fruit / vegetables with others for what we don't grow is so common. No dollar values, just I have this and you have that...it so works. I trade my labour or skills when needed on larger land holdings for firewood cutting or meatbirds / rabbits whatever they have that I could use.
Brah....Sign me up. I'll go get my passport today if it's needed (praying it is) Sounds like a slice of heaven.
😂😂😂 It can be comemunity makes the difference. We're all a bit alternative, anti establishment in the hills here...😉 During the bullshit lockdowns in this nanny state, the Mrs did a food box delivery service to families that had no invome, all food was donated by people we know. she managed to get a crate with a weeks worth of food to 20-24 families for 16 weeks.... That really got my faith back in humanity
Have you not encountered the problem of the coincidence of wants yet?
Is getting what we individually want, good for others in society that have to deal with the consequences though? Drug users and dealers got what they wanted in portland.....
In a properly free and voluntarily partitioned society and market, when individuals are succeeding its because they are providing goods and services that others desire and voluntarily trade for. It's only if you're forced to "deal with the consequences" of others' behavior that don't align with the norm of adding value to society where you run into problems. It should be possible to isolate the drug users and drug dealers in Portland away from one's society, market, community. Those who choose to associate with that scene (either because they desire what it offers, or because they wish to attempt to help heal it at their own expense) will expose themselves to the consequences - "good" and "bad". Those who wish to be isolated from the consequences should be free to do so. You assume our fates must all be entangled together. That premise results in unsolvable problems; agreed. I reject the premise. Because I prefer social norms that reduce conflict and tend to produce solveable problems.
So your a Utopian then ?
The ideal anarcho-capitalist voluntary society sounds like a utopia to me, personally, but it doesn't require anything too magical or unreasonable aside from leaving a set of people alone to do their own thing. It's being allowed to Exit that is the difficult precursor. States are unfriendly to the idea of letting their citizens renounce their status and take a little bit of border land with them.
Why would someone make a stupid choice that doesn't benefit himself? What incentive does he have to make his own position worse? (And how is that incentive magically introduced just because "money"?)