Anarcho-Capitalism In Practice II - Theocracy Edition

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[@hendrikmaus3575]

I am so excited for the Anarcho-Capitalism Cinematic Universe.

[@suezuccati304]

Literally GoT

[@minhducnguyen9276]

We forgot that the entire Borderlands game series revolving around corporations messing up with everyone's life. All guns manufacturers in Borderlands either use indentured labourers and cause massive environmental damage ( maybe comrade Vladof and Mr Tourge is an exception). Oh and they also committ warcrimes every now and then.

[@facundocadaa9020]

@@ThiagoPagogna in the beginning I thought he would go that route with this one

[@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341]

In IMAX! But for a limited time only!

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Someone will make an Entire fucking Wiki for this Series. With a page about Lore, Characters, and lists of Crimes.

[@haku1015]

“The problem with anarcho-capitalism is that you eventually stop being 14”

[@ultrademigod]

At 14 you don't have time to think about it that much, as you have 3 kids to bring up.

[@nzmanhdee6246]

14 is a metaphor for capitalism

[@Frommerman]

Yep. At that point you're too old for the ancaps. gag

[@Otzkar]

So when do you grow too old for anarcho primitivism

[@cageybee7221]

@@Otzkar 3

[@tsotate]

I keep waiting for the part where he fixes anarcho-capitalism by turning it into a train.

[@spoonstraw7522]

anarcho trainism

[@docchoc2407]

How to survive jail: "Beat up strongest guy" How to survive ancap: *Scam the richest person*

[@Vollification]

Basically how it already works?

[@Unwanted_truth_]

So Amber Heard, when Elon was paying her legal bills against Depp because Musk is a simp

[@niteshade5783]

That's how south Korea works

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

@@niteshade5783 I honestly can't tell which one is worse anymore. 🇰🇷🇰🇵

[@FairyCRat]

@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 I mean, one can legally be escaped without putting your entire family at risk

[@christopherg2347]

"Anrcho Capitalism" aka "that thing we tried before Governments, forcing us to make governments."

[@PlatinumAltaria]

The topic for the first meeting of the anarchist commune is "Who's in charge?"

[@carsonpearce5980]

And a free market economy (not capitalism) worked great until we started planting stuff in the ground. When people have to own portions of the earth to maintain your society things get tricky.

[@SuperSky9]

@ Christopher G No, Anrcho Capitalism is the thing we tried before Government started expanding like disease. And unlike anything that involves the government it was successfull.

[@TheJayman213]

FIrst there was classless society which split into classes after the agricultural revolution. That in turn caused the formation of states.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

@@SuperSky9 Capitalism requires a state, as does society more broadly.

[@IAmTheAce5]

‘Taxes are bad’ _mandatory 10%_ ‘Social services bad’ _subsidized daycare and cheap labor for services_ Ah the miracle of branding

[@tomaszsotysik9438]

Often when argueing with libertarians, when they don't have a solution to a problem, they allow small, simple government regulations. Sad thing is, they never gain awareness, that this is contrary to their idealogy.

[@cdcdrr]

It's not a government. It's a private enterprise that the majority has decided should have far reaching powers over everyone's lives without accountability to the client.

[@thejudge1728]

@@cdcdrr Sooo... It's a dictatorship?

[@facundocadaa9020]

@@cdcdrr it's not a government, it's a governmen't

[@ericquinteiro2330]

@@cdcdrr "The origin and epistemology of state , an analysis" - cdcdrr,KZbin,2021.

[@willtor]

Bold to assume the Ancap society already had an age of consent.

[@charlesthebald3671]

Adam: Sees Scientologists taking notes. "Stop that! It's supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a blueprint!" Turns round. Sees Mormons taking notes... "FUUU....."

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

Hell even I think it was pretty based

[@joachimfrank4134]

One of my thoughts also was: Mr. Hubbard (inventor of Scientology) would like this.

[@elainetamika4822]

Ha! this is all based on their guidelines. Here in Brazil the leader of the most rich pentecostal church (Igreja Universal) wrote a book named, Plan To Power and he writes about turning the country into a theocracy plainly.

[@user-qi6pv9jh7o]

I remember a cult which tried to breed fast enough to become a majority in USA and thus rule everything in few generations (if i remember it right, they failed because children didn't want to be in cult)

[@shadiafifi54]

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around; Adam based this on existing practices of cults and such.

[@jovindsouza3407]

TL;DR - Anarcho-capitalism will always end in feudalism or a theocratic version of Big Brother.

[@andy-kg5fb]

TL;DR is horrible

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@andy-kg5fb - Not as horrible as anarco-capitalism

[@SuperSky9]

@Jovin D'souza Not it doesn't. Anarcho-capitalism is a rejection of monopoly. The same monopoly that Far Left Progressive supports for while scream about then being oppressed by the rich. Any business can replace the older business and take over market. Meaning if Google censors Right wingers, they would make their own search engine and social media and 50% of the twitter users would migrate to it then next day and Giant that twitter facebook and google would loose a lot of money. This doesn't happen in the current age because we live in an age of Corporatism.

[@_remblanc]

@@SuperSky9 The video watcher has logged on.

[@Lenny-bi4zv]

@@SuperSky9 go simp for capitalism somewhere else nerd xD

[@SianaGearz]

I, for one, welcome our new 8-legged overlords. Oh wait, anarcho...

[@Feefa99]

All hail mighty Stephen!!

[@piccalillipit9211]

TOOK me a while to get it - but it was worth the wait - very good :-D

[@DrZaius3141]

You can find plenty of arachno-capitalists on the web.

[@amarug]

clever! haha

[@explosivemodesonicmauricet1597]

@@DrZaius3141 ***Arachnid Capitalists "Arachnid Workers of the World,unite!"

[@Supergforce777]

Turning an Ancap society into a feudal society or theocracy sounds like a really fun role play or strategy game. Build up society and centralize power.

[@segmentsAndCurves]

I would love to play such a game. Not in real life tho

[@Terranallias18]

@@segmentsAndCurves I mean a lot if tycoon games are functionally like that

[@ProvenScroll]

@@segmentsAndCurves Idk an oppressive feudal theocracy run by a bunch of zealous oligarchs sounds pretty fun to live in

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@ProvenScroll fun to play, not to live

[@racionador]

simple play cruzader kings

[@Alpha1200]

Anarcho-capitalism rests primarily on one thing: A complete failure to understand how power works.

[@comiccid1]

"You were so afraid of the government you became a stupid government!"

[@hlonelaqothelo4076]

Perfect isn't it😂😂😂

[@Vhlathanosh]

LOL 😂😂

[@Otzkar]

"Wubba luba dub dub!"

[@eljoel89]

The Council of Ricks, minus the Ricks with a Morty President.

[@onerevenant1211]

Anarcho-monarchism ftw

[@Timbo5000]

Praise our lord and saviour Stephen Montreux! Because of him I could afford to purchase a bigger tent to starve in

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

Also thank him so much for excluding all racial minority’s now I don’t have to feel bad when I have to steal bread from my blond hair blue eye neighbor :) so considerate of him!

[@staliniumprojectile]

it's "Montreaux"... learn to read

[@groundzero_-lm4md]

I actually live in the same city as Molyneux. It's a disappointment.

[@NashTheGreat]

@@staliniumprojectile nobody cares

[@octavianpopescu4776]

@@NashTheGreat I care... spelling is VERY IMPORTANT. See? This is why you have people who can't tell the difference between "their", "there" and "they're"!

[@thomastrinkle2294]

More likely, given that in an AnCap society all land would be privatized without any “commons”, the people in those tent cities would be squatters violating some landlord’s “property rights”, and he would already have had them killed or arrested by private cops who would sell them off to a definitely-not-a-slave-plantation private prison.

[@davidheitzenrater9027]

The only thing missing is the half-dozen or so others who tried to jump on the bandwagon and "mysteriously" disappeared or were "Tragically" beaten to death by a Atlasian follower who definitely took Stephan's call against that person the wrong way.

[@diongallagher6605]

We need a part 3 that explores the raider factions, and their unification under the leadership of Biker-khan...

[@Terranallias18]

Can't wait for the next ancap simulation to turn into mad Max fury road

[@klubstompers]

We all know that the raiders were funded by Stephan himself, and allowed to operate to promote fear.

[@newagain9964]

We also need a trading post/pseudo settlement of rogues and freemen, a dog eat dog community. let’s call it...barter town. And in bartertown, master blaster rules it.

[@22beesjustvibin67]

dude, those are just the Great Khans

[@22beesjustvibin67]

@@newagain9964 and we need a town made of junk where people just try to make a living while taking the advice of a well respected shop owner, let's call it junk-town

[@themroc8231]

Whenever i talk to ancaps online I always ask them this question: in a stateless capitalist society, who establishes and enforces your property title? Never got an answer.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

No you don't understand. God tells me I can own stuff and then I murder anyone I think is violating my rights, biggest army wins.

[@sreyes103]

the first time i talked to an ancho, he kept repeating that group of people with weapons would. I to this day have no clue wtf he was talking about

[@explosivemodesonicmauricet1597]

@@PlatinumAltaria anddd then indirectly make a state-like structure in the process.

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

@@sreyes103 A "group of people with weapons" AKA an army? That's basically the system we currently have with the state having a monopoly on violence.

[@sreyes103]

@@PragmaticAntithesis i mean ya thats what i said. but the more i asked if thats what he meant or whenever i asked for clarification he would either get mad, accuse me of trying to twist his words or both.

[@pancakes8670]

It's really funny because this is almost exactly how Frank Fontaine took over Rapture in Bioshock. "I gave those fools a bowl of soup and they gave me their lives."

[@GeorgeTsiros]

good soop

[@concept5631]

​@@GeorgeTsiros Anything will be good soup to a starving person.

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

My ex wife joined a cult. They genuinely treated time with the leaders as a commodity and would trade them amongst themselves. I got a 30 minute meeting for 100 dollars, I had to pay their child before walking in a room with the 2 of them where they didn't listen to a word I said.

[@alexanderbelstra26]

The moment that Adam attributed charisma and oratory skills to a Molyneux stand-in I suddenly remembered that this is fiction.

[@loganduff601]

No someone like that definitely would have oratory skills and be quite charismatic how else would it work

[@FriendlyCroock]

lol Wow. Once again a video from Adam that I like. When he's doing stuff like this he's great. When he's spewing racist hatred that he learned in the racist and divided west where everyone hates their neighbor because o his/her race is when I have a problem with him.

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

@@FriendlyCroock Strong claim you have here. Care to give examples?

[@nathanlevesque7812]

>sees absurd comment by Crooc >grabs popcorn

[@ffreeze9924]

@@nathanlevesque7812 I’ve seen him around in other comments. He tends to always claim that all westerners are racist and doesn’t really back up his claims very well

[@97LifeMelody]

This HAS to become a regular series. I can sense that in the next one society will descend into a lobster monarchy.

[@Nimish204]

Reference to Jordan Peterson?

[@TheBonkleFox]

Nah, it's gotta be "Wednar Rayn" and the settlement of "Exaltation"

[@andy-kg5fb]

WE WANT LOBSTERS

[@MrThatguyandrew]

If there was even the slightest chance of ancap resulting in Lobster Monarchs it would be way more popular.

[@AnkhAnanku]

These are horrible. I love them.

[@rantymcrant-pants9536]

"Thanks to Stephan's charisma..." And the simulation broke.

[@vulturesmusic1617]

The stupidest thing about ancaps is that all of their praises of the ideology rests on the fact that they themselves will be the ones in the god-like status, instead of one of the exploited people. Great video as always!! These thought experiments are great

[@DallinBackstrom]

this has pretty strong comedy value, but an almost concerning amount of depth and stratagem. Adam is prepared and has a plan for becoming an oligarch in a future of anarcho-capitalism

[@aetherarcanist4819]

all fine by me, as long as I can join early and be part of the top tier ;)

[@judahfrankel9742]

I think that's kind of the point; simulating these sorts of causal chains and gaming out the shape of things as they advance over time is key to preparing to counteract them. Modelling out "ways to become an oligarch" is the first step towards modelling "how to spot and prevent rising oligarchs". OTOH, if we end up in future anarcho-capitalist societies, I guess we know what to do, huh?

[@joachimfrank4134]

The old joke about the precondition of supporting the re-introduction of monarchy: I'll gladly support the re-introduction of monarchy. I only have one precondition. I want to be crowned as king.

[@zachw2906]

I, for one, welcome our smooth-voiced overlords. I can be useful in gaining the trust of refuseniks and ratting them out when the time is right. All hail emperor Something!

[@justsignmeup911]

Ancap response: It would have worked under a more pure ancap system

[@Game_Hero]

And then that purer Ancap system ends up becoming a state and the cycle continues, such is the fate of bad ideas...

[@ayesaac]

Ancaps: Communism can't work because human nature will lead to the centralization of power and corruption. Also ancaps: Anarcho capitalism will work as long as we stay pure and don't allow the centralization of power or corruption.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

It would actually be this playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5-zZWWwq7WDiLM

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@ayesaac nope

[@Zhicano]

@@ayesaac can't have centralization without property which communism won't have. Property as in a means to exploit other workers of their surplus value

[@cinnamoon423]

I can't help but feel Adam just want an excuse to play cities skylines and I love it.

[@hondaguy9153]

The most hilarious part of this is that Stephan would worry about feeding other people.

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

he would if it allows him to gain power :p

[@jimcat68]

It's in his rational self-interest to have a large group of people beholden to him for the basic necessities of life.

[@hondaguy9153]

@@jimcat68 truth!

[@hondaguy9153]

@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 truth!

[@BinarySecond]

I love it. He bans taxes, riiiight after a mandatory 10% tithing

[@thejudge1728]

To be fair, you could not pay it. You'd probably be stoned or starve to death, but you do have that signature ancap choice.

[@BinarySecond]

@@thejudge1728 by not paying you completely opt out of their society, it's just a tax

[@thejudge1728]

@@BinarySecond Yes, but it's not called that, so the ancaps would probably never notice. A non-tax tax your company/church forcefully imposes upon you is very much something that falls in line with the ideology.

[@nukiradio]

How can you ban anything? Isnt that archo???

[@BinarySecond]

@@nukiradio taxes are, obviously, a tool of big gubbermint and an caps hate those

[@Mamorufumio]

one thing i do love about this story is that it's easier to tell just how much time has passed thanks to the sewage pump in the river.

[@tfk_001]

The dangers of using cities skylines for a similation

[@sachacendra3187]

I must say i love the little detail that they never improve on either their sewage or road way network.

[@rogerbond2244]

Yeah, that grabbed me, too...it feels so... contemporary UK.

[@RuriRurouni]

"They know all of the new information showering them from Stephan's mind! Trickle-Down Economics! Austerity! Privatization! 1350!" Okay you got me there. I choked on my water.

[@TunaBagels]

There is a big problem with this one: You're being far too generous by putting a Great Man on top of this pyramid. You don't actually need a sociopath on top to build out a theocracy. Once you have a successful ideology which provides welfare and increases trust between members, you already have a self-propagating system that can organically become powerful enough to control countries, and sometimes entire civilizations. See: The Catholic Church.

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

That's why I thought the theocracy was great. The only thing I disliked was the end where he lowered the age of consent, disallowed women to work, and mandated arranged marriage. Basically if it wasn't a sociopath on top I would have wished this was real

[@jakub.kubicek]

@@potatoheadpokemario1931 It is though and has been for the past two millenia

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

@@jakub.kubicek it has been real for probably 1 and a half millennium at most and then the idea of speration of church and state became a thing

[@joaomoreira9428]

Islam, cristianity, judasim, you name it

[@joaomoreira9428]

@@potatoheadpokemario1931 its good if you follow such. Until it becomes wicked

[@davisutton1]

"People who break the rules are branded arseholes". Some pretty funny shit.

[@avernvrey7422]

Worked pretty well in the old days. The aholes were shunned by the community.

[@abhinavmelathil366]

@@avernvrey7422 What if someone important did a wrong to you? There’s a reason why there are laws: because you can’t trust people always acting in the best interests of the community.

[@avernvrey7422]

@@abhinavmelathil366 I didn't argue for anarchy. I simply pointed out how older (and smaller scale) societies functioned. It needed not be a crime, just if someone was an asshole, they were ostracized.

[@ethanstump]

and to anyone thinking that this couldn't happen in modern day developed secular countries, as a former Mormon i would beg to disagree with you. the Mormon church has triple the assets that the Vatican does, at $100 billion dollars.

[@timothystamm3200]

I mean what Adam was describing is what most religious Republicans want.

[@wilt1435]

That's just in the Vatican part of the Catholic Church. German Catholic Church is 26 billion, Australian Catholic is 20 billion, etc. It adds up across more nations while Mormon is basically only American.

[@ethanstump]

@@wilt1435 while we are mostly American, there are temples in all part's of the world, from Central America, to South America, to North America, to Europe, to Asia, to Australia, to Russia, to Africa, to India, and even China. and sure, there are only 17 million members, but if the assets are still 100 billion, that is still pretty impressive for such a young religion comparatively. i personally hate that my conception was on the behest of that quisling of a church, but i digress.

[@wilt1435]

@@ethanstump my condolences

[@ethanstump]

@@wilt1435 thank you.

[@Rhysman30]

I appreciated that this one initially touched more on the realistic profiteering of every service rather than hoping an altruist would acquire it

[@eee00000]

I love the sewage slowly building up in the river in the background

[@nootnik]

Wow, this process describes in detail how prosperity ministries work. Even the donation tier process. Second Baptist Church in the Houston area works just like this right down to the minister delegating the sermons and making fewer in person sermons over time. Chilling.

[@MM-yj7yt]

dammit I knew there'd be real life examples of this in the comments.

[@janmelantu7490]

Second Baptist always gave me weird vibes, especially the different “campuses”. Like that’s not normal for churches.

[@Bigbenching]

does he feed the people in the tents? asking for a friend

[@nootnik]

@@Bigbenching No.

[@AdolfStalin]

Hey some people aren't lucky enough to grow up Catholic. I'm of English background so I don't get that chance

[@sandy_dandy_cotton_candy1221]

Talk about Habbo Hotel. It's the perfect example of anarcho capitalism in practice and how it devolves into exploitation even with teens.

[@josemarionate8905]

Most teens there really wants to have Habbo Credits so much, you'll do anything to get it (lineup for games, giveaways, etc.)

[@Game_Hero]

@@BlackJesus8463 That is a cautionnary tale based on something that happened for real (in a game, but still, a show of human psychology)

[@cakeisyummy5755]

@@BlackJesus8463 *ONLINE GAME.

[@_ZERO]

I would say thats more of a minarchist society. Theres a government (admins) who all they do is moderate chat. Thats about it. You can scam people, use people for labor in the promise of credits (slavery) etc.

[@Frommerman]

Hell, Minecraft servers have employed slave labor.

[@sylviethetg7598]

16:16, Not just a theocracy, one of the most horrific dystopian theocracies of them all, it's only a matter of time before the God Emperor makes religious armies to convert heathens from outside the empire

[@anthonymonge7815]

I just started watching this KZbinr. I love the way he takes Ayn Rand’s topics and books and mixes them into the story. Tongue-in-cheek hilarity.

[@thejudge1728]

Now I'm waiting for part 3, where the two states we've been introduced to prove the unpracticality of relying on non-agression principle.

[@suezuccati304]

"LET THEM FIGHT!"

[@Hjerrick]

My money is on Billy Bob

[@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108]

@@Hjerrick Well on one hand he have the industrial power and more powerfull fighting force, on the other the religious fella will have a nearly unlimited supply of militia, who would win I wonder?

[@Quetzocotol]

Non-agression principle is so galaxy brain, us plebes couldn't possibly understand it

[@iwersonsch5131]

I'm more hoping for a part 3 where a city makes sure to go down neither road and devolves into the next undesirable system

[@ninjasheep7492]

Reminds me of what Frank Fontaine did in Bioshock. The utterly desperate can easily become an army for whatever radical group can give them hope. “I hand these mugs a cot and a bowl of soup and they give me their lives.”

[@McLarenMercedes]

President Roosevelt discovered the same thing during the early Great Depression. Mob bosses started soup kitchens and provided shelter and "jobs" for all those who had lost their jobs. Eventually it reached a stage millions trusted the mob and the mob bosses more than they trusted the government. Hence Roosevelt had to start the social security program and his own state/federal soup kitchens and jobs. What these few anarcho-capitalists all fail to understand is that they'd end up with a LOT of hungry and disillusioned people soon enough. They also utterly fail to grasp that a horde of hungry and disillusioned people is something very scary. The anarcho-capitalist "solution" to all these millions of hungry people? "You have the freedom to help yourselves and to pull yourselves up by your boot-straps." Obviously this is monumentally myopic and stupid. This is also why they would end up eating sh*t in the highly unlikely scenario we'd ever see such a system. The biggest drawback in anarcho-capitalism is this bizarre notion we all only ever need individual freedom and the right to pursue our own goals. No other considerations are necessary. The benefit of cooperation for the greater good is an utterly alien concept, and yet this defines any viable culture.

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

"There is power in the weak when they're with many."

[@finalcut612]

Frank Fontaine's political ideology is Ayn Rand's Objectivism, which has been renamed 'Atlassianism' here after her dogshit incoherent 'novel' called Atlas Shrugged

[@userequaltoNull]

Just like how Lenin and co built the Red Army.

[@calebblaha7854]

Those are inspiring words. There are many desperate in the modern age.

[@evertonc1448]

To people that think new and cultish religions can't prosper in a relatively modern world, try going to Utah. You can make people believe in anything if you're charismatic enough.

[@protocetid]

And if you peddle it to desperate people.

[@umamifan]

@@protocetid And then make those people reliant on the system, so that any wrongthink can be punished through outcasting and restriction of access to the services they made entire families become dependent on, fundamentally ruining someone both financially and psychologically

[@PeachDragon_]

If it makes them feel special they'll believe anything

[@something1600]

And so the free market ideals of Ancapistan began rapidly crumbling, slowly the supporters of Billy Bob and the Ryans began preparing for an all out war.

[@joshuaholdsworth3897]

I'm reminded of Simon Whistler's explanation of corporation (coming from a relatively capitalist man) which amounted to "you gotta restrict corporations or else they'll be a dick"

[@granudisimo]

That's why you tie capitalism on a short leash, and that leash is socialism. As far as metaphors go, this one is pretty self explanatory, just pick a Ouija (a history book would do just as fine tho) and ask Roosevelt

[@LordEriolTolkien]

Capitalism is not a Moral system; it is an economic system. It relies on those within the system to behave morally. Well, the West is not big on Morality at the moment, and here we are. Corporations Being Dicks on a scale heretofore unseen.

[@lucqq3792]

@@LordEriolTolkien so by extension it kinda is a moral system not only does it shape morals for the people living within it, the people also shape the morality of capitalism this applies to every political ideology imo

[@thejudge1728]

@@LordEriolTolkien It may not be a moral system, but it does directly incentivise some rather (im)moral qualities. There's little profit for a corporation to be gained by _not_ exploiting tax havens and cheap workforces, after all.

[@armchairspaceman9134]

@@LordEriolTolkien when were we ever ''big on'' morality? as far as data shows we are in fact more moral today than ever. - - you're not one of those ''good old days'' types are you? jesus!. go pick up a history book.

[@chikitronrx0]

Lol Those 10% obligatory donation sounds a lot like those illegal taxes.

[@m.f.3347]

Just call taxes "rent" and ancaps will suddenly fall head over heels to hand you their money

[@_SpamMe]

Rent, fee, subscription, free donation, devout gift, subversion payment ... come up with whatever. A bit of hypocrisy is mandatory in theocracies, that's why Catholics love preaching that poverty is virtue in gold and marble churches ...

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

Especially 10%, as a hint to the tithe in feudal times where you either had to give away 1/10 of your produce or (if you couldn't afford that) had to do socage, aka working for free.

[@dustinm2717]

We'll invent taxes but we won't call them taxes

[@Loukyan]

Heretical musings like this would bring you a visit by the Atlasianist Police in Stephen's Empire.

[@bobfg3130]

1:07 I've said before on your previous video, this looks like an ancient city-state rather than a medieval city. This doesn't look like feudalism. Basically it's worse. This is an interesting take. In the past, in the first cities or city-states however you'd like to call them the high priests were the "proto-kings". The temple was the state and it did actually provide services that we have today. Temples were hospitals among other things.

[@keg8129]

The only thing I enjoy about anarchocapitalism is that it breeds good drama

[@mindblower8774]

Same lmao

[@IAmTheAce5]

Clearly anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction in itself: Anarcho- : without ruler Capitalism: hierarchy by property title

[@itsgunter6114]

Ah, a fellow Fortune Hunter

[@IAmTheAce5]

@@itsgunter6114 When you hit the ground, tell ‘em I sent you!

[@athanasiospapazoglou7310]

How anarcho-capitalism works is that you blame the goverment for the shortcomings of capitalism

[@leonmuller8475]

But Capitalism is at its core about ownership, not about rule. So in the most basic way it is not a contradiction, only in reality where ownership leads to forms of power over others the name breaks down.

[@IAmTheAce5]

@@leonmuller8475 If I remember correctly, there is such a thing as ownership without capitalism; there is such a thing as 'personal' property as distinct from 'private' property. Capitalism may not be explicitly about 'rule' in itself, (except the rules concerning how much buying power you have versus how much title you own) but "remember the golden rule... who has the gold makes the rules". People and public need or will need not apply.

[@mikkopenttila7604]

Even in the scenarios presented by AnCaps themselves there's usually SOME entity or a conglomeration of them that essentially holds the monopoly of legitimate use of violence. I mean by the ones who are smart enough to figure out that maybe it would be a good idea to avoid a war of all against all and such. So their great innovation is basically replacing The State with a State.

[@steemlenn8797]

Just with less acountability to the public, yes. That is the main point why I think AnCaps are Bloody Stupid. Like in Bergholt Stuttley Johnson, if you are a person who reads good books.

[@thejudge1728]

A few right libertarians I saw out and about argued for minarchism instead of AnCap, without apparently realizing how a small entity with a monopoly on violence would either be easily corrupted or eventually consolidate other forms of power in its hands as well

[@coolbanana165]

Basically megacorporations would have the power to enforce security, and their leaders would probably have to come to an undemocratic agreement on rules for society, making them an aristocracy. If they end up electing one of them to be the leader, you just end up with corporate feudalism with some sort of monarchy or dictatorship? So it's not just replacing a State with a State, it's replacing a democratic State with an aristocratic State.

[@thejudge1728]

@@BlackJesus8463 In the best case scenario, if private security is provided by an outside business, you kind of have to pay it under the threat of potential violence from other citizens (and that's ignoring how the company would have an obvious interest in conducting false flag attacks on the uninsured). In the worse case scenario, your company provides security for you as a part of your corporate benefits, using their security force. The company will most certainly pass those costs on to you, basically deducting a service tax from your salary. You're in the same situation as in the previous example, but now you'll lose your insurance as soon as you try to change jobs or do something the company doesn't like. Should I remind you that private security is the only way for you to retain ownership rights to anything you have, since it's not enforced by the state anymore, making it basically essential?

[@tackytaco8133]

They'll just call it "creative destruction"

[@ShabazzTBL]

The 13/50 was so subtle that it took me awhile to catch what was said haha.

[@KINKObun]

MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD!

[@funybirbman3813]

Let's fucking gooooo

[@KINKObun]

@@funybirbman3813 oh cool you found one of my 4 am comments i had no idea i left this

[@duncanyoung9770]

I love how no matter the scenario taxes will always arise due to the necessities created by a complex society.

[@whatsallthebrouhaha]

@@magnumopus5661 "nuh uh"

[@comiccid1]

When I think of anarcho-capitalism I immediately think of Tatooine from Star Wars, as the entire country is ruled by gangsters and the police are essentially bounty hunters and mercenaries. Oh an slavery has made a comeback. Or it could be like Omega from the Mass Effect Series.

[@minhducnguyen9276]

Or Illium. They even have indentured servants. After all, Shepherd only visited the top floor where the upper classes live.

[@CZpersi]

ALso Bioshock is a very good reference.

[@dr.chocolates2630]

"Don't make mistakes, illium is not more safe than Omega" - Garrus

[@Krommandant]

"The entire country is ruled by gangsters and the police are essentially bounty hunters and mercenaries. Oh an slavery has made a comeback." Ok and how is this any different than post-90s USA? Asking for a friend.

[@hagiualexandru1920]

@@Krommandant oh my god. i almost cut myself in all that edge

[@emanuelledavidzebligonzale417]

I am absolutely obsessed with your videos. Thank you for these masterpieces you're providing the world ! Greetings from France

[@connormclernon26]

So basically, Anarcho-Capitalism would result in something like Rapture from Bioshock?

[@benfennell6842]

Rapture in bioshock and Andrew Ryan are parodies of Ayn Rand and her ideas.

[@motherfuckerlimited1019]

That's the main message behind the Bioshock games.

[@viper_exe_]

Loving the use of cities skylines for the visuals!

[@user-gk9pl6vl5v]

I was gonna ask about the visuals, thanks

[@wog6523]

Wait what? Lol

[@otdewiljes]

With thanks to donoteat01, no doubt :D

[@FrostRare]

@@wog6523 the game he used to offer the visuals is a game called City Skylines

[@JackgarPrime]

@@otdewiljes Its a tradition now among leftists talking about civil engineering and similar topics.

[@Jules_Diplopia]

And you never even mentioned those non believers who had to be "cleansed" from the system.

[@_SpamMe]

Since the series is about "best case" scenarios that's probably not even necessary. They just become a marginalized fringe minority that can be exploited for more cheap labor - or perhaps doing the "dirty" work that proper devout citizens are unwilling to do. Like, I don't know, provide health insurance services for those that secretly want them. I guess there'd be the occasional pogrom as a side effect if that happened ...

[@Jules_Diplopia]

@@_SpamMe The problem there is that a "best case" scenario for ancap, can be viewed in more than one way. 1. They somehow get enough to eat and clothe themselves as charity. but in reality 2. A real ancap system would, could not feed them, that would be the seeds of a health system. So they would starve. Until some bright spark figured out how to make money out of them... human body parts, or selling drugs to them, and to pay for those drugs they would have to steal from those rich folks around them....

[@TheTrueBagman]

Their life subscription simply ran out. Praise be to the great lord, Stephen.

[@garrettelgin4742]

This makes perfect sense when you consider how all of the early states were fundamentally theocratic. Pharaohs, Lugals and the like were as much priests as kings

[@yankyener4491]

Hey man, thanks for another great video with the same format! I hope you'll also take on other "special" ideologies in the future!

[@baritonetenor]

11:29 convinced me to believe in Anarcho Capitalism It gives us flying ambulances and tbh that is an amazing addition to the healthcare system

[@flow185]

The ambulance started to beleive

[@milesdunstan-daams9162]

Look at the royal flying doctors in Australia

[@chompythebeast]

Isn't that basically what medical helicopters are?

[@Samantha-jv6xu]

*"He have flying cars today. Its called a helicopter"* -Neil deGrasse Tyson

[@plmokm33]

What is it about An-cap society that always leads to flying ambulances? First the trauma team in Cyberpunk and now this!

[@PablitoAndCo]

6:39 "... they made a facebook post about it, detailing the scam so that no one else would fall for it. The post was read by 500 people." I'd say that a folk by the name of Dobe Reuben would be proud of this.

[@MM-yj7yt]

And then these workers became millionaires next year anyway.

[@TheNN]

And every comment was calling the poster a 'radical godless commie' I'm sure.

[@toddgreener]

I grew up Mormon in Utah, and this is spot on. You didn't happen to take inspiration from the Mormons did you?

[@syiridium703]

It boggles my mind how can anyone think that not having a governing/controlling body that everyone has at least some possibility to choose, is a good thing. It's like if someone thought that not having a universal healthcare is good thing. Oh wait, I forgot conservatives in USA exist.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Yeah, they look at all the issues with people in power and decide the only ones we should get rid of...are the only ones the people get to vote for. If you have democracy, then you have a government. The only way to get rid of the government is to get rid of democracy. That's it. All I've gotten out of people who say we should get rid of government is "well if we can figure something else out..." But there's no way for the people to hold any power...without having a government. 🤦

[@intelligencecube6752]

Honestly, while I’m not exactly conservative, I like the idea of a universal healthcare system. I just also recognize that adding another large bloated government bureaucracy on top of what we already got would leave us with an even more sub par healthcare system then what we already have! I think what’d be better for the US just due to its sheer size and land area would be to have that be a State thing. People in a state fund and run their own little system and if it works for them, then that’d be seen by other states and would be adopted state by state by the people who want it.

[@syiridium703]

​@@intelligencecube6752 How does land area relate to (distribution of, I guess) of universal healthcare? If I understand you correctly, you think that universal healthcare is fine but should not be run by the federal but rather by the local government? That's fine, it works relatively well in a very comparable (land area and population wise) "country" - the EU. Each country within the EU is running their own healthcare system. Unfortunately, the part "if it works well in one country/state, others will copy it" does not work that well in this case. But in general/theory I would agree that such solution would work quite well. However, this still requires some governing body that would handle the funds and devise distribution mechanisms (so called "laws"). If you are trying to sneak in "the people will do it" - that is either not going to work (if there is no sort-of-neutral oversight it will end up not being fair or someone will just steal the money) or you will simply end up with a sort-of-government, anyway. Still, none of these solutions run with conservatives - at least to the best of my knowledge. AFAIK, they want no universal healthcare, or they want the companies to run the healthcare system (which is more or less the current situation and sorta anarcho-capitalism paradigm - I know there is some oversight but that's mainly for a show - dot dot dot: lobby and stuff).

[@intelligencecube6752]

@@syiridium703 To answer your first question, it becomes harder for a system to coordinate with itself the bigger it is. It’s harder to keep track of its resources and with the politics of the United States being what they are today, if Universal Healthcare was pushed through on a Federal Level by Democrats then it would be repealed by Republicans the next time they were in power. Because of that fact alone, I really don’t think that Universal Healthcare is possible nationwide in the United States. The European Union doesn’t have a centralized Healthcare system either, it’s run by member states and is different inside of each member state. Ironically, the French have a very well planned out and organized system that works for them and is run by their central Goverment, but they are also a fair bit smaller than the US. The thing about Healthcare is that it is a Tax problem. If we want our “Free Healthcare” to be able to do anything outside of give you a bandaid for a papercut, you need a substantial tax burden on the local population in order to run said Healthcare. We don’t have a bipartisan agreement that Healthcare is good and necessary for us here in the United States, unlike in Europe where they more oftentimes do. All of these reasons are why I think having a State pass it as a State law would work better than the Federal Government running it! If the people of a State want a Healthcare System, then they can pass it, use those taxes to pay for it, because they have decided that is something they want. Universal Healthcare would be very expensive, but it’s Doable on a smaller level where the bureaucracy doesn’t eat half of the money because it needs to in order to administrate itself on that large of a scale.

[@intelligencecube6752]

@@syiridium703 Second Paragraph, I know that thinking “The people will do it” is a bit too much of an Ideal situation and unrealistic on the grounds of how individualistic we are in the US, but I don’t think that we shouldn’t have a governmental body run something of that size and complexity AND usefulness for Society as a whole. It’d just be a State running and making legislation instead of the Feds. We have state legislatures and they have State laws that are not dictated by the Feds. The thing is they can’t go against the Federal Government, but Universal Healthcare isn’t “illegal”, it’s just not legislated at all. Besides I see it as a State issue anyway, regardless of whether the Feds “should” do something about this or not. Look at Marijuana Legalization. Look at Prostitution (COUGH, Nevada, COUGH) and look at the Still Around Old Dry Laws from Prohibition. Originally a state issue because the Constitution doesn’t directly talk about those things, but the Constitution does say that (and I am paraphrasing here) that any issues not brought up in the Constitution is devolved to the States or to the People.

[@bulbuceliftenie]

The best netflix series

[@fds7476]

Twit Game.

[@beanbucket2489]

I'm rooting for a Sicilian mafia in the next episode.

[@caiofernando]

You can't have a mafia when you don't have laws.

[@elvastan]

I want to see part 3, and the war between the Aynvillian Empire and the Atlassian Empire. After a 30 year war, it comes to a standstill, and 5 years after that, Trotsk Khan invades and conquers them both.

[@samrosendahl392]

I want more games that take place in worlds where theoretical political ideologies are in place.

[@stealthfinger]

I'd like to hear holy Steve's explanation of how a 10% contribution in exchange for basic services isn't a tax lol

[@timothystamm3200]

"Because he didn't call it that and it was mandated by faith," his supporters would say.

[@stealthfinger]

@@timothystamm3200 "voluntary"

[@majacovic5141]

Coz it's a tithe, obviously. Right-wingers have no problem with charity, they just have a problem when charity isn't attached to indoctrination and exclusion.

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

easy, anyone who calls it a tax just happens to be beaten up by "enraged citizens".

[@ethanstyant9704]

@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 exactly. It's not a tax, it's a percentage payment in thanks for all the infrastructure and security I use, they get angry when I don't pay them and lock me away but that's because I didn't pay thanks. I'm the rude one

[@tobiasjenchen4647]

Preventing that guy from starting his cult underminig Anarcho-Capatilism wasn't profitable to the security salesmen visiting his church at 3:37.

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

*lol*

[@DeltaEXEv2]

Could probably make a fucked up warhammer 40k style game if you make enough of these simulations. Imagine The Holy Atlasian Federation vs Feudal Lord Billy Bob.

[@maxmusterkann6057]

Please never stop doing these

[@iancrowley420]

“government, taxation, and social services are heresy!” *proceeds to open schools, impose taxes, and establish a government

[@DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop]

Man I sure hope to see more potential outcomes of this hopefully -purely theoretical hellscape- plausible utopian vision.

[@Jay_Johnson]

Man I sure hope to see more videos about how the current governments are restricting freedom of speech and judicial independence. not piss takes at a libertarian straw man.

[@Miata822]

A more plausible version bands the financial underclass together and militarizes them against "the others" who are holding them down. These others are select members of the monied class and eventually those who are secretly sympathizers or members of additional small groups that are somehow holding the people down and diluting their purity. Perhaps these bad people could all be isolated from 'good' society, maybe in a camp somewhere. The only difficult part is to be sure that nobody identifies You as one of the bad people. Be sure everyone knows how well you defend the purity of the good people and report suspected bad people.

[@Miata822]

@@Jay_Johnson In the US at least libertarianism is at the core of the far right movement. I can see how it would be appealing if you don't think about the end state to thoroughly.

[@Jay_Johnson]

​@@Miata822 No it is not. the libertarian right in the USA is a myth. the real force behind the right in the US is corporate and religious groups. look at US right wing policy. Libertarians would be for defunding the police not militarising them, reducing the military budget not trying to start wars, free trade not protectionism. Allowing women bodily autonomy, Letting people self Identify their gender and love who they want to. the US Christian and corporate right are the antithesis of libertarianism. Fascism is at the core of the far right in the USA. There was almost a fascist coup at the start of the year let us not forget.

[@TinaMcCall.]

Landfill achieved! Excellent work, as always.

[@skilimavro]

Thank you for making these videos they are amazingly informative and hilarious

[@ZILtoid1991]

My predictions to the follow ups: 1) The setting is an ex-Stalinist state, where Jimmy Anthony takes inspirations from a South-American dictator Rhinochet, then creates an era of austerity and dies early on. His era is called as the Robber-privatization era. Then comes an oligarch named Victor Urban. 2) Anarcho-capitalism now have to compete against other ideologies, and by the end, it turns into a fascist dictatorship to protect itself from the continuing reemergence of worker movements.

[@dankirk25]

Aw, come on. At least put a spoiler alert in the post...

[@pax6833]

Or, 3) Ancapitsan devolves into violence as without a central entity with a monopoly on violence, people increasingly resort to violence to settle disputes, nearby towns competing for resources develop tribal conflicts, but the people refuse to form a government to safeguard themselves so escalating violence and breakdown of infrastructure forces people to abandon settlements, people band together in small clan groups and move out into the rural countryside to live off the land and just like that anarchocapitalism has regressed humanity to hunter gatherers or 4) A neighboring state, led by the glorious dictatorship of the proletariat, sees the mistreatment of workers in ancapistan and uses it as casus belli to invade ancapistan, without a strong defense industry the small collection of private arms is not enough to hold off the red army, ancapistan is occupied and annexed without much problem and guerillas who flee into the countryside slowly starve off and die

[@user-ls4cs1wd2w]

Even better : the whole city is attacked by bears, something that actually happened in one of those libertarian projects

[@benjaminpark5460]

@@user-ls4cs1wd2w and the bears won because the ancaps couldn’t agree on an approach and everyone did their own thing, including feeding the bears.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

The will of the people cannot be denied.

[@Dechamor]

Conclusion: Anarcho-capitalism will always finish in an awful form of authoritarianism

[@GeorgeTsiros]

_anything_ left unchecked starts malfunctioning. Even you yourself, a body able to self-regulate and self-heal _automatically_ if left alone and idle, after a while will start malfunctioning.

[@popopop984]

@@GeorgeTsiros “unchecked” as if anarcho-capitalism has any checks at all, remove the government and you get rid of the laws and enforcement in proper form, give power to pure capitalistic competition and all you have left is uncontrolled plans for domination and profiteering. No one is there to check it, there’s no moderation, this system just breaks as time goes on.

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

I disagree, Stephen was based up until the end where he went full pedo and misogynist, it seems to just be there to make people who thought it was great to agree with Adam

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

@@GeorgeTsiros nah the authoritarianism is a feature of anarcho capitalism

[@Ugh-Fudge_Bwana]

@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 Nah obviously it just means they didn't anarcho capitalism hard enough. Surely it'll work *next* time, am i rite?

[@snefagel]

Bruh this series is so good! We NEED and demand more of this. Love from Sweden 👌

[@enemixius]

Just scrolling past this and reading "Arachno-Capitalism", interest piqued, then the disappointing realisation that I just misread it.

[@arthurturp9008]

Can you please talk about kowloon walled city? An ancap system that became run by gangs

[@SuperSky9]

He can't! Its Chinese and anything critic non white is racist according Adam Something

[@alternate7773]

A lot of the former residents of the Kowloon Walled City look upon it as a “happier time” even when being completely reintegrated with normal Chinese society though.

[@rowbot5555]

@@alternate7773 that's actually pretty interesting, any sources/sites i can read up on that from?

[@arthurturp9008]

@@alternate7773 yeah I'm curious on hid take

[@50733Blabla1337]

@@SuperSky9 How do you even write shit like this without cringing?

[@bachpham6862]

On the upside, there has not been a case of sexual abuse or mysterious disappearance of a member's partner in this church (that we know of)

[@MM-yj7yt]

Yeah, totally. None at all.

[@fearedjames]

I mean obviously, with a suitable age of consent of 5, those boys and girls get to experience love of Stephen and his cohort directly, without shame. No sexual abuse at all.

[@ofacid3439]

@@fearedjames Sounds very Pitcairn

[@ethanstyant9704]

@@fearedjames yeah "they'll like it eventually even if they say no"

[@Demopans5990]

@@ethanstyant9704 177013?

[@aviowl8945]

This is an entertaining cinematic universe. And somewhat educational. Can’t wait for episode three for expanding on the lore

[@djpvp9086]

I love how you keep giving me ideas

[@masterplusmargarita]

I'm not usually one to post a timestamp and say "lol", but the visual on screen at 15:55 is objectively hilarious.

[@nocomment3294]

Guess pretty much how Moly boy wants to see him self. As an Philosopher Emperor an enlighted saint who's genius is deified during his lifetime. Like a cross between Augutus / Octavian, Jesus and Sokrates. To bad he barely understands the work of better Thinkers and Philosophers and mostly misunderstands their complex ideas. Probadly because they threaten his perfect world view.

[@ravonne6308]

When you pitched the situation from the poor's perspective, my first thought was Rapture. Then Atlas(ianism) came in and I'm really satisfied. I guess it'll go down the same way (without quasi zombies and slug magic, of course). :)

[@Monarch_Prime]

*Big Daddy Noises*

[@Gregsplays]

Please do another of these, they're very good ^^

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

Adam, keep up the great work brother.

[@iphone6person21]

Due to Stephen's immense, God-like powers, he is now able to make ambulances fly! Thank you, ancap, you make everything better! (11:43)

[@KarlSnarks]

Saw that as well XD

[@muenchhausenmusic]

def the most important detail in the whole video XD

[@endloesung_der_braunen_frage]

Lol

[@Etzellll]

The next episode should be about a showdown beetveen Billy Bob, and Stephen Montreux........

[@MainMite06]

**ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF DBZ, BILLYBOB OF AYNVILLE WILL FIGHT STEPHEN MONTREUX OF RANDVILLE!**

[@Ponera-Sama]

I'm pretty sure Aynville already got folded into the Atlasian federation

[@rudrakshpainuly1294]

Keep continuing this series man

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

Even though I already know and understand most of it, the video is extremely well made and narrarated. Also seeing things play out in any way is useful

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Fear not; Atlasianism is NOT an organised abrahamic religion, and is therefore good. It's not even really a religion, it's an immortal science.

[@MrJuanmarin99]

As someone just commented in my twitter we should start calling anarcocapitalism as paleoliberalism. There isn't nothing "neo" in a 200 years old theory.

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

They are more or less as stupid as anprims, so maybe.

[@atrevolutionwiththomaspain68]

@@antonioscendrategattico2302 so paleomarxism?

[@rollotomasi8559]

Old liberalism was very different from anarchocapitalism and neoliberal ideologies. For instance, they generally believed in the labor theory of value, while modern liberals mistakenly believe the labor theory of value is exclusive to socialism. Neoliberals generally take their ideas from Austrian and marginalist thinkers, who were a big divergence from what came before. That's the reason for the name.

[@atrevolutionwiththomaspain68]

@@rollotomasi8559 Hii, which old liberal believed in the labor theory of value?

[@DaDARKPass]

@@rollotomasi8559 The labor theory of value is that idea that the value of something is based on the labor required to make it, correct?

[@andrewforte2018]

Your English-speaking accent is so unique, the KZbin auto-captions think you are speaking Dutch lol

[@Tounushi]

First a feudal city-state, then a theocratic bisphoric. What's next, nomadic despots?

[@ThePuma1707]

As soon as i heard "Roman" in the first minute, i expected it to turn into a slave state. I was wrong, but not too far off

[@steemlenn8797]

You are stupid. Slaves have rights. AnCaps not (except the one and only consent right). Speaking of Roman slaves: There were even Greeks who sold themselves into slavery to Roman families, working e.g. as teachers, and then let their friends buy them back (and free if the friends were trustworthy). The majority of slaves lived like AnCaps with a bad accident of course, but still, it's interesting.

[@flow185]

We're closer to something like The Legion than the Roman Empire.

[@zuresei]

​@@flow185 funny how people obsessed with Rome fall into a line of thinking that isn't really all that Roman

[@m4a1snerfed]

i want a 4 hour work day.

[@aeyde]

nice nick lol

[@aidensherman6146]

I don’t think it’s that op :(

[@reavent8760]

Is the M4A1 just generally op?

[@semnejlepsi8983]

@@aidensherman6146 look at some direct comparisons, apart from a bit of fire rate and 5 more bullets in a mag, the m4a4 has literally nothing to offer

[@jamesmoist1184]

Why are people talking about mfn cod?

[@lunakoala5053]

Stefan Molyneux... ohh I 'member. What a blast from the past.

[@Number1139.0]

I was listening at this and something hurt me.. You could totaly be my Stephan, with the words going out of your mouth and coming to my brain, so if one day you want to give me free food then a purpose and finally a job, I'll definitly accept it. Thanks for the inception 11:29 and also wtf is this ambulance doing