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[@wojak6351]

Future countries video next?

[@carltheoneeye9353]

i only have one thing to say. WELL FUCKING DONE!

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Just to note: 3:09 the founder of the Austrian School is actually Carl Menger

[@danielvictor3262]

Isn't anarcho-communism a bit redundant tho? Engels said communism is achieved when the function of the state finally "wither away".

[@danielsurvivor1372]

So boss, what's the next ideology? Or are you gonna handle Anarchists first? If yes please do the Egoists next, it's interesting how some claim they can be both free market enjoyers and Ancoms. Oh and you just gotta do anti realist ideologies at some point too, INGSOC, Communalism, Darwinism, Soulism etc. They're just so cool n wacky.

[@kennedythe5th]

Love or hate it Can't deny the retro-futuristic 80's aesthetic here are good

[@ProxiProtogen]

Ye

[@-SteampunkTraveler-]

Fr

[@goofygoober8774]

If you hate it doesnt that automatically put you in the stance that you are actually, in fact, denying the aesthetics being good?

[@philippstetter5611]

its amazing how i found this channel to look up how to play some 19th century economics simulator and now the guy is teaching me some actual political philosophy

[@bomschhofmann1644]

Yeah, I gave him my sub when I was getting into vicy 2 and out of the nowhere he starts making history/philosophy countryballs videos

[@lmaozedong7007]

I regret nothing

[@aoneill324]

The vicky 2 to Tom Sawyer pipeline is real

[@fellsoull]

Ancap is funny

[@plarteey1316]

SAME! I came for the vicky stuff and I’m now sucked into this channel’s content

[@prussianfromthem00n79]

I absolutely adore the artstyle of this video, also Your return to economics is great. Thank you for the superb work!

[@romeersharma2488]

Anarchism is the most edgy political ideology ever

[@jordandino417]

I like him when he does history but this is ok. :)

[@PolitictalDipsit]

@@romeersharma2488 well not really it's depend on which form of anarchism. If your a middle anarchist your most likely a nihilistic edgy teen or a lazy scum, if your a left anarchist your either a degenerate edgy teenager (still middle anarchist have the most edgy teens), or most left philosopher nowadays or a (violent) workers. Meanwhile a right anarchist might be a crazy economist with philosophy of anarchy thinking it's compatible with laissez faire economics. (And also no, right anarchist aren't rich people that want to exploit you, usually rich people tend to be authoritarian right for personal gains)

[@romeersharma2488]

@@PolitictalDipsit what about anarcho facism?

[@PolitictalDipsit]

@@romeersharma2488 I'm not gonna talk about them nor the national anarchist and the black lylist.

[@In_Our_Timeline]

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” ― Larken Rose

[@vedsingh2108]

This is also politics

[@LiberatedGolem]

@@vedsingh2108 You're saying AnCap is politics? I guess advocating for the lack of government can be called political, but I don't think that's what the quote is against. It's against those who will use tricks to increase the actions/policies of the government, usually for their own gain, to the detriment of everyone else. Wanting the removal of government, in that sense, is the opposite of politics.

[@SeanRyno]

@@vedsingh2108 anarchism is non-political.

[@goose6112]

@@SeanRyno bruh

[@SeanRyno]

@@goose6112 what?

[@FineUndDandy]

Mother raised a statist but that Ezekiel got me acting unwise

[@oscarwind4266]

Before geting a job: Eh. Taxes are a thing. After: Taxation is armed robbery. Inflation is theft.

[@Anonymous-ds8kr]

Dude same 😭

[@connoisseurofcookies2047]

Literally saw that happen to a young fella at work the other day haha

[@lukephillips1331]

so you’re still at your first job?

[@oscarwind4266]

@lukephillips1331 No. I got a seasonal job over the summer and went off to the national parks. I've been trying to find a third job since.

[@lukephillips1331]

@@oscarwind4266 i’m just saying, if you’re getting a rage boner over taxes and think you’re being stolen from, then you’re young. very young lol.

[@ladyevw-p7y]

Who is here after mileli won the presidency

[@Boo-l5d]

I was an anarcho-capitalist before Milei won the presidency and I'm glad to see so many people interested in this ideology :)

[@mekingtiger9095]

​​@@Boo-l5d Anarchocapitalism and right libertarianism in general has been on the rise throughout South America over the last years. I've seen it rising first in Brazil. It was even at that time when I first came into contact with it. But I really couldn't imagine it became *this* strong in Argentina!

[@Boo-l5d]

@@mekingtiger9095 True, but as you say, the case of Argentina is even more astonishing since until 5 years ago there were only 4 anarcho-capitalists in the entire world haha, and for a president to identify himself as such is an incredible advance. I did this in the translator in case there are any errors so you know.

[@jasonm949]

He's a troll. Hasn't done one thing for firearms rights, but sure did convert real quick for that gold.

[@dreamias8216]

Me lol

[@currentcommentor8745]

Anatomy of the State is a tiny book. Its great. Some pages have bigger citations than main text.

[@marcusbenhurr]

great book, hits really hard in post covid society

[@CognitaFlow]

Yeah I cooked with that one fr

[@steadyjumper3547]

The police not answers people’s calls is exactly what happened over 2020

[@Saqux]

exactly, i remember a news story from california (i think?) where there was bunch of blm rioters with guns who stopped someones car, when the person called 911 they told him that they cant do anything to help him, since governor had ordered so.

[@fentanylfloyd2474]

​@Corporate Overlord Name checks out

[@transon6655]

The strongest argument against anarchism is a description of the status quo - Michael Malice

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@transon6655 Care to explain? I think I don't get it.

[@FOGGYlama123]

@@mekingtiger9095 anarchy good because current thing bad

[@14thbattlegroupcommander]

the statement about security companies not desiring to go to war reminded me of a historical example on another problem with such a system: the condotiery, mercenarys in medieval italy offered military services to the rich but small city states. but dying, as it turns out, is bad for business, so when another city state offered more money, they werent afraid to flip if the odds of victory were not clear, and i think it is agreeable that a government would have more money and benefits for a company than a single companie's consumer base, with the remaining militia not exactly the greatest threat for an organized force with combined arms capabilities, and support from the local company

[@cybersaiyan9596]

yeah, an organization whose only allegiance is money isn't very loyal.

[@scottwashere4047]

On the contrary, proper malitias very well *can* fight combined arms forces, especially if the society is incredibly freedom oriented, as an ancap one would certainly be.

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@@scottwashere4047 that's irrelevant if the militia can just be bought out.

[@scottwashere4047]

@@cybersaiyan9596 Can it though? Maybe some malitias, but if you have a society based around statelessness thats actually functioning well enough for these malitias to have initially formed, then it stands to reason that the majority of insurance companies *and* malitias would fight the state in hopes to keep their freedom.

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@@scottwashere4047 but the entire society is based the accruement of capital, so if an organization has enough money, they can just buy them out. after all, the people with the most freedom in this society are the ones with the most money. like, you can't even defend yourself, get others to protect you, or get the basic necessities for life without money.

[@simm1132]

the new argentina update look epic

[@djemseyfi7416]

Imagine being able to buy a truckload of AKs from the Resident Evil merchant the moment there is a threat on the horizon. Am not crying... I just have something in my eye.

[@patrickwang671]

One thing I've never heard a good answer for is how they want to keep the free market free and prevent monopolization. It's probably the most cliche question on this topic but still.

[@KevinJohnson-cv2no]

The key is to dismantle the belief that all monopolies are bad. It's true, Laissez-Faire practices would evolve into monopolistic markets, but in an actual Laissez-Faire economy the only monopolies that can develop are those known as "Natural Monopolies". These are 'healthy' monopolies that arise from genuinely having either a better product or cheaper price than their competitors; these are actually desirable, and the moment they stop offering the market a superior deal they are usurped from their position.

[@jakman2179]

He had a video that explained some ways over here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mobIaGOeZZ6rftU . The primary response I hear given is that Monopolies require some method of enforcement and that most monopolies have only survived through the enforcement of a state. For example, a company might be able to create a local monopoly on water by daming the rivers and charging the locals above market price for it. But, for that monopoly to survive it has to either 1 be the most effective actor in that market, making it a harmless monopoly, or 2 somehow keep out competition. The second pretty much requires a state to be feasible. If they are not the first and cannot do the second then there is nothing stopping an outsider from doing stuff like trucking in additional water or innovating some other way to get the water needed and selling it under their price. This profit would allow the outsider to invest more and build up infrastructure outside of the monopoly to cover the missing demand, and cause the Monopoly to lose their monopolistic position. A monopoly might do some kind of 'cut to kill' strategy, but that means they aren't being as overcharged then. This also ignores that the people in the area have power also. They could band together and hire an outsider to truck in their water then boycott the monopolist until he lowers prices to reasonable levels. They could innovate and fine a way to circumvent the Monopoly then live without the monopoly. If a monopoly is truly terrible and unable to be dislodged by market forces, then the people are within their right to leave, depriving them of a customer and reducing profits further. The people can also just violently revolt, making them have to become even worse to support their monopoly and pretty much guaranteeing unprofitablity and that their customer base will dwindle even further.

[@rarr2130]

@@KevinJohnson-cv2no Right but imagine unregulated monopolies on some vital infrastructure. E.g. a company that owns water pipes in the whole state. There would be no better competitors.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

I'll do it in 3 letters: ECP

[@goatskin4487]

The basic idea is that monopolies are created by the state. Even in Rockefeller's peak he never controlled most of his industry, but instead was targeted for not bribing the current administration.

[@mekingtiger9095]

They did it!!! The Boludos finally did it!!! The madlads did what was thought to be impossible!!!!!

[@danielsurvivor1372]

So boss, what's the next ideology? Or are you gonna handle Anarchists first? If yes please do the Egoists next, it's interesting how some claim they can be both free market enjoyers and Ancoms. Oh and you just gotta do anti realist ideologies at some point too, INGSOC, Communalism, Darwinism, Soulism etc. They're just so cool n wacky.

[@k-techpl7222]

>Oh and you just gotta do anti realist ideologies at some point too, INGSOC, Communalism, Darwinism, Soulism etc. They're just so cool n wacky. Those ideologies are quite literally jokes.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

@@k-techpl7222 Yes, and your point? It would still be fun to see him try as hard as he can to show them in good light... And fail because they're so crazy

[@redcrown5070]

@@danielsurvivor1372 just like anarco capitalism

[@joeschmo4646]

@@redcrown5070 anarcho-communism**

[@Aneko101]

Yeah. Anarcho-leftist anything is inherently an oxymoron since it was collectivism (by definition the state) while claiming to be against the idea of a state.

[@Pendraig1400]

Unlike anarcho communism I can picture this working in my mind. One problem is mega corporations which if get enough power could just replace the state with another state like entity.

[@TheOsis181]

Anarcho-capitalism will inevitably lead to concentration of wealth and power, probably to some form of neofeudalism I reckon

[@Just_A_Goose1]

Anarcho capitalism is literally just neofeudalism

[@daviokamoto2143]

@@Just_A_Goose1 You don't give any credibility with this profile pic.

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

@@Just_A_Goose1 annarcho communism is also neo feudalism.

[@Just_A_Goose1]

@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding that statement is wrong for many reasons and why are you even bringing it up? It has nothing to do with the conversation

[@a_yanki]

I appreciate the usage of Rothbard's iconic glasses on the lecturer.

[@MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI-1]

“Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.” murray rothbard

[@ZetaPrime77]

How 'bout another joke Murray?

[@Aneko101]

Based

[@Cyborg_Lenin]

"Briefly anarchy is when violence and force are a given, unless you can pay up. That sure isnt coercive in any way." - Me

[@OneLine122]

It can't be coerced if money is consent. Also people consented to give the government the monopoly on violence, so it's just a big insurance company.

[@adrienmartin8798]

@@PetroleumPatches Feel free to believe that but please don't force this belief upon others. Likewise you may read and worship the Bible, that doesn't give you the right to hold the rest of us to do the same

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

The aesthetics here are AMAZING! Man you are such an amazing channel, not to mention the art style

[@EasternCatholicLusophone]

Ezekiel, today you outdone yourself. This SynthWave art style is *great!* The Countryballs are also really well done!

[@karolgajko]

You handled topic quite well. The only mistake I can think of is crediting Mises as founder of ASE - it's pretty unambiguous that Carl Menger is OG Austrian. Mises was probably the most influential and brilliant Austrian, but he was in a third generation, after Menger and Bohm Bawerk. Also, is french balls in the beginning a reference to Bastiat? It gave me huge "the law" vibes. Love your vids! Keep up great work!

[@Flamingghost1025]

Also there was a pseudo Austrian school in 16th century Spain.

[@zephlodwick1009]

My main critique of ancapism is that the lockean property that ancaps endorse allows for large land holders to excercise power that could result in a defacto state.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

You're going to have to homestead a lot of land....

[@zephlodwick1009]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 The thing is you can buy it. The catholic church owns 7 million square kilometers of land.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@zephlodwick1009 You can buy it, but nobody has infinite money. How much of that land did they actually homestead?

[@zephlodwick1009]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 I guess you're right. But there are groups that are that rich, even if the only land they could buy to create a country would be rural land. I know that most of these groups are only as powerful as they are because of the government. Do you think that their wealth would have to be redistributed first for ancapism to work?

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 but they can just make more money with the land they already have by renting it out to people, who can't afford their own land, thus fueling an endless cycle of buying and renting out land. sure, it would take a bit of time and money to build stuff on that land, but that just delays the inevitable. this is already happening in the real world with landlords.

[@henrybricks2953]

4:32 "they're gonna make Warren Buffer the *KING* of ancapistan" Libertarians: wait, that's illegal

[@Flamingghost1025]

Tolkien: haha the ancaps just gave me my ideal society of anarcho monarchism.

[@JLT1403]

Would argentina look like this after the anarchists gain power?

[@atanaZion]

You mean the pro-military dictatorship "anarchists"?

[@atanaZion]

@ChillpilledTuxedofrog Specifically who I thought

[@projectp1821]

@@qn2xd hence the accusation … minimise is the best way to consolidate power !

[@hermestrismegistus5384]

Don't expect anything from Argentina. Freedom CAN never come about through the political process. It is a full impossibility, just in reality though

[@Amantducafe]

Delusional. The system Argentina is based on is rotten from the core whatever Milei proposes there is an entire class of rich individuals/families and masses of unwashed poor peasants that will allow it to happen up until it becomes an issue. The most negatively affected will obviously be the poor and dependents of the government which is expected when you ruin your system by creating a lot of social programs without having the culture, education and economy to sustain it. Argentina is not a Scandinavian country where people understand and participate in the system also Argentina is not an industrialize nation and it will never be. So i am skeptic and the only way Milei can prove me wrong is by demostrating he can achieve this, but he won't.

[@audrius337]

I love this channel. An unbiased look into ideologies is very refreshing

[@younggamer7218]

I would say these are quite enthusiastic weirdly. I also feel like every video has some sort of bias towards the idealogy though that could just be the overly positive tone of these videos.

[@younggamer7218]

@@samadalhayadi6844 I guess that does make some sense but I don't agree that all idealogies are good in the traditional sense. I mean fascism is an idealogy and I don't think too many people are going to say 'it's good on paper.'

[@corradoalamanni179]

An effort to be unbiased is still better than partisanship

[@younggamer7218]

@@samadalhayadi6844 I agree with that and none of these really sound any better on paper especially juche.

[@nbmi4613]

"unbiased" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY FUCK Yeah dude, get your opinions of what ancaps actually believe from breadtube channels. So unbiased.

[@luishenriqueamaro4218]

Man... this art is incredible. Your channel really become top tier

[@jansvoboda4293]

I would also recommend Machinery Of Freedom by David D. Friedman. He also studied a lot about polycentric law and Medieval Iceland, worth looking to as historical alternatives to centralized state.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

You mean the Iceland that ended up asking Denmark to rule them over?

[@jansvoboda4293]

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Norway, actually. The causes are analyzed in "The Decline and Fall of Private Law in Iceland" by Roderick T. Long (unfortunately YT hates external links) Still almost 300 yeas before the pressure and attempts to corrupt the system it bore fruit.

[@Aneko101]

@Corporate Overlord Rothbard and Hoppe argue what would be considered utilitarian points as well, but they come second to what is objectively the most ethical system by human nature. Leaving that out leaves the gates open for future authoritarianism.

[@Cyborg_Lenin]

The ones that failed? Sure why not.

[@neededathrowaway1818]

@@Cyborg_Lenin "Failed" as in lasted for 300 years, and where during a period described as **"catastropic" collapse** of the legal system, homicide rates were still several times lower than all of the kingdoms of the time, significantly lower than today's Chicago/other major cities, and lower than the death rate of driving a car in America? And where the locals fended off a kingdom that was several times more powerful for 50 years (this is when the "catastropic collapse" took place) before finally surrendering? Yeah, you're right, what a failure.

[@JoeVSvolcano]

I had to look this up after hearing Javier Milei(new President of Argentina) put Donald Trump to shame with his method to drain the Swamp.

[@Pan_Z]

Confused to how this system could work without a state to uphold property rights or prevent fraudulent practices.

[@darth3911]

Insurance companies is the answer according to ancaps. Way it works is you’d insure your property, with documentation of the purchase.

[@hermestrismegistus5384]

Or just you know. Defend it.

[@GunNr-]

Insurance companies will take over that roll as explained in the video. Alternatively, you can get guns and protect your property yourself.

[@user-real_gorbino]

Corporations will make a state without state lol

[@darth3911]

@denizmergen418 In theory they’d lose credibility and then get beaten out by competitors. Issue is Ancap ideas fail when a single company buys out all its competitors, or merges with the major competitors. For Anarcho-Capitalist to work there needs to be a system to prevent company mergers and buy outs. Thats where things get real problematic.

[@jmdibonaventuro]

“Insurance companies will spend more money on protection in order to keep you as a customer and avoid payouts” Ah yes because insurance companies are always known for giving payouts whenever people are entitled to them, and generally for being the most upstanding and loved companies on earth

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

the insurance companies who do not will be defunded and will be liable for fraud.

[@alexisrousseaux1067]

​@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 and then what ? If there's no state then there is no rule nor justice . And since you gave this compagny tanks and nukes good Luck getting your money back

[@BLACKOJJJ]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 good luck trying to enforce that

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@BLACKOJJJ Enforce not paying insurance companies?

[@HonestObserver]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Liability does not exist when there is no one above the insurance companies. Are you going to ask a competing company enforce your claim? What incentive do they have to do that?

[@wildfire9280]

2:17 Just when I thought the visuals couldn’t get any more cursed you put THAT in the background while talking about inflation…

[@elv3302]

So…. Replacing the sate, with insurance companies? I probably couldn’t think about a more dystopian system if I tried to.

[@florianschneider3982]

What is bad about that?

[@starzainia]

Insurance companies are so horrible now BECAUSE of the state.

[@oscarlundberg7462]

Insurance companies aren’t bad. American insurance companies are.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

Virgin Biased Knights of the ideology channel fan Vs Chad Unbiased CallMeEzekiel channel enjoyer I'm honestly surprised at how well yet simple the video explanation was. Although I do hope you revisit this and other ideology when discussing certain other topics. For example, it would be fun to see each different ideology view on, say progress or culture, how would each react and interact. As for this video, the only thing you missed is probably mentioning slightly less common but still common critiques like "but what bout mcnukes?" Or "how will Ancap society handle this niche law" Or private courts deal. I mean, how would they work? How would they interact with private security? And what happens if you say broke a rule in one private area and flee to another area that doesn't enforce this rule? Other than that, good video. Refreshing to see unbiased view of Ancaps

[@nilsmadej9091]

Man... No need to bully the guy like that, he's a much smaller channel. And as far as. I know he does this alone. I know it might be just a joke but I just wanted to let you know that this comparison is unfair.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Since a criminal that escapes justice will do it again, crime insurance would be incentivised to investigate. Once the culprit is caught, we still have a presumption of innocence, so the matter would be taken to a court. Both sides want an arbitrator favourable to them, so their interests will meet in the middle, so they would decide to find an impartial judge.

[@bomschhofmann1644]

This is probably the only thing I dislike about this channel: he presents every ideology, no matter if it is right or left, from the perspective of a member of said ideology While this makes it pretty accurate, it leaves out all criticisms of the ideologies, which is quite important to me and I think not addressing criticism can mislead people into thinking that this ideology addresses every issues

[@danielsurvivor1372]

@@nilsmadej9091 Nah, nah. It's pretty fair, Jreg started out small and yet he somehow able to be a bit better at portraying Ancaps(at first, later Ancap character did devolve into strawman ;_;) He has no excuse. Also my critique of knight of ideologies isn't production value, it's his bias. Hense I added word biased for him and unbiased for this Lad. You don't need to have big budget to portray Ancaps as decent people or atleast realise that they aren't more wacky then Ancoms. "Muh real Anarchism" yeah, Ancom is totally real Anarchism despite the fact that without the State, you quite literally can't achieve seizing the means of production. Ancoms have potential to creating their own communes and co ops, nobody stops them, why aren't they making em? Ancaps are quite literally unable to live their principles, there are even some cases where some Libertarians fled to sea(sea steadying) and they were punished by the State... Even tho they left their sea border long ago. So yeah feel free to disagree, but remember my point wasn't to bully him because he's a small channel, small channels can be morally bad as well, my point was that I like this channel because it shows unbiased picture of Ancaps. And key word is unbiased, he didn't demonize them NOR s*ck their cock. Knights on the other hand s*cks Ancommie cock off screen while throwing garbage at anything Right wing and acting morally superior.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

@@bomschhofmann1644 Eh? I don't see that. Maybe he can make additional videos addressing more critiques in the future? Who knows.

[@jackwayne6687]

6:20 This scenario was literally the 2020 BLM riots.

[@sirlamm6657]

Holyshit the choice of music is just beyond great!

[@T0BI]

3:08 the founder of Austrian Economics was Carl Menger

[@neonschaf]

Actually yes, but the praxeokogic fundament comes originally from Mises

[@kerwinbrown4180]

Tax is just the governments charge for the services they provide. How can one be a capitalist if they don't understand that?

[@Solon1581]

7:40 This entire line of thought assumes not only that people are inherently rational in their decision making(Which most people are not), it also assumed that they are properly informed about possible threats at all times and ready to cohesively respond to an iminent threat at an incredibly short notice. This is simply not possible in the modern age with modern warfare and military strategy. Just take the Gulf War as an example, a military offensive that involved supplying, equipping and organizing nearly a million soldiers in a war that lasted little more than a month. To put that in perspective, if you were to have a 5-minute conversation with 3 new people(that you've never met before) every day for the rest of your life, you will have talked to around 100 000 people by the time you die. That is little more than one 9th the number of people involved in the offensive. No ragtag militia can ever reach that size, cohesion and organization; without a supply chain, training facilities and chain of command without a level of cohesion that implies a formal entity resebling a state.

[@OneShotBruh]

I agree completely. It is also ridiculous to assume that those insurance companies would give you the level of protection that Ezekiel describes without those companies being either monopolies or charging you basically all of your income for their services (since it's claimed that there would be a lot of smaller competing companies). Do people forget how expensive the US army, navy and airforce are? And those companies are supposed to ACTIVELY protect ALL of their customers? I agree that an unbiased representation of ideologies is a good thing, but being unbiased doesn't mean saying things like "totalitarian and democratic ideologies all have their pros and cons and it's not possible to say which are better".

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

1) I would like to be insured against invasions of criminal gangs 2) The internet is a thing 3) Why use ground troops when you could use McNukes?

[@OneShotBruh]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 I didn't know that nukes work in a way that they affect only the people you target them with. Thank you for teaching me something new today :)

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@OneShotBruh Well if you nuke Paris, it isn't really going to affect Mumbai, is it?

[@rarr2130]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Well, it is going to affect the whole world because MAD is still a thing.

[@IDontknow-zm6cz]

8:20 I see a great jreg reference. Gotta’ love it.

[@sqocks8254]

That bit about the _"peaceful protestors"_ hits very close to me, and I'm not even from the USA. It was still funny though.

[@In_Our_Timeline]

another great video ezekiel i really like your art style as well keep it up man

[@HandsumeAJ]

So what happens if the insurance companies start fighting each other?

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Why would they?

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 to gain a bigger customer base, and to acquire resources.

[@kavky]

@@cybersaiyan9596 There's this thing called "partnership". You should look it up.

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@@kavky i mean, i doubt i'll find anything if i just search up the word partnership.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@cybersaiyan9596 All of which can be more effectively attained through voluntary trade, see division of labour. On top of that, the aggressors in the conflict have just painted a massive target on their back. They will be blacklisted, mucking over their logistics completely, and what remains of their supplies would be poisoned by resistance groups.

[@borkerman]

8:24 welcome to ancapistan where every man can be a king Does this mean a Longism episode is coming?

[@jeronimomendez1007]

Loved this part. Lets go Jreg!

[@Si_Mondo]

No Kings but Christ!

[@carlsonraywithers3368]

Huey Long Dong

[@scotandiamapping4549]

I just realised a problem with this, and I'm honestly embarrassed that I didn't spot it during the video. Who's printing the money?

[@mekingtiger9095]

I remember Ancaps having a suggested "solution" for this, but I can't remember it anymore... Though their other, more known suggestion is of course Crypto.

[@ErickStoner]

Tangible metals or materials or maybe cryto

[@Amantducafe]

The destruction of fiat currency means a return of both barter (trading things for things) and gold standard. This obviously also comes with problems because someone has to mine, mint and distribute currency (In the case of gold standard) and if someone is desperate for food i can barter a loaf of bread for their property.

[@PracticeNine]

Insurance companies already feel like legalized crime. I cannot imagine them being responsible for puplic or national security....

[@TheUrizen]

Insurance is a contradiction. The ones deciding if something is or isn't elegible for refund are the one who benefit the most by ruling it isn't. There is conflict of interest between the company's interests and its mission statement.

[@LiberatedGolem]

Well, one thing I do know is that many things the government imposes doesn't only feel like legalized crime, it IS legalized crime. Getting kidnaped and put in a cage for having a certain plant in your pocket comes into mind.

[@Zorro9129]

@@TheUrizen What keeps them in check is competition.

[@Amantducafe]

@@Zorro9129 until there is no competition, welcome to a monopoly.

[@carlsonraywithers3368]

​@@Amantducafe How would that happen? If a company is treating you like garbage and you still use their services, that's a you problem. The state just enables them to gain more power while being fed taxpayer funds

[@alexandersotirov5440]

yooo the desing of that video is so suberb!

[@Woodsnat]

Anarchists always drop the ball at the “but who will build the roads” question because it’s so unprofitable to build and maintain roads it would astonish you. Even toll roads in America are so unprofitable to run that they’re subsidized, imagine what every road being a toll road would look like 💀 Don’t even get me started on national security, Machievelli himself stated in “The Prince” that relying entirely on mercenary armies and isolationism is a death sentence for your country The ideology tends to fall flat from there

[@Woodsnat]

I mean the ideology exists in a vacuum, supported by echo chambers, where they assume that people both act in the best interest of others, and that they act in the most logical interests of themselves. Neither is true, which is why nations force both. Very simple stuff

[@hyplayer]

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[@qsr1776]

Right, so we have hundreds of companies which build cars, one of the most complex machines in human history while also being easy to repair in your own garage.... but flattened concrete?? Far too complicated for anyone to try without the magic of the state.

[@CognitaFlow]

Just wait until you find out that governments don't actually build the roads🤭

[@spazzohawk9591]

The art style looks so cool

[@thepedrothethethe6151]

WAIT A MINUTE. This is just feudalism but with money!

[@k-techpl7222]

Yes and?

[@cybersaiyan9596]

so it's just feudalism.

[@CTzons]

Basically Cyberpunk 2077

[@bhaskarsingh1564]

Where are my recreational nukes

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Taxation is theft, Tarriffs are too.

[@theskeletonappearsinthisco5896]

lol good rhyme

[@Aneko101]

Honestly it is sad that things like "Taxation is theft" isn't treated as something just as redundant as "Water is wet". It should just be common sense yet some people really want to defend force and theft because they like whoever is doing it. Or just want to bootlick in hopes they get special favors.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@Aneko101 Well, you know the old Orwell quote on universal deceit.

[@theskeletonappearsinthisco5896]

@@Aneko101 wait you guys are unironicly anarcho-capiatlists? i mean im for capitalism but not anarcho capitailsim. want to debate? (srry for my bad spelling im too lazy to fix it lol)

[@Aneko101]

@@theskeletonappearsinthisco5896 I think I get what you're probably thinking based on the name, but just to clarify. Anarchy means without rulers, not without rules such as natural law. The natural laws which protect the rights of life, liberty, and property. We just believe that power should be decentralized to private firms so they can be held more accountable and not so easily corrupted. The state however is just a centralized, easily corrupted monopoly on force and coercion, it lives off stolen property through taxation meanwhile without that you can either voluntarily pay a private firm for protection, and/or choose to just use self defense since there wouldn't be a state to repress your abilities to do so. And since they rely on payment for the service rather than the money being guaranteed, they are incentivized to do a good job at it along with competition to make them want to do the best they can to uphold order.

[@angryfoxzd5233]

I fail to see how Anarcho Capitalism as a bad thing. That sounds awesome imagine being able to keep the money you earn and use that money to buy whatever you want or need.

[@qMartink]

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[@atanaZion]

bro, u can't see anything flawed at it AT ALL? YOu mean as you'll have to work like a slave with no rights and have no one to protect you from richer ppl?

[@angryfoxzd5233]

​@atanaZion how am I a slave when I'm getting paid? Also I can start my own business without worrying about stupid government regulations and property taxes. So I'll be rich anyway.

[@atanaZion]

@@angryfoxzd5233 Do you think the slaves weren't feed enough to stay alive?

[@atanaZion]

@@angryfoxzd5233 🤣🤣🤣 Where are you from? You sounds like a latino with this mindset

[@Jfunkey]

I love Astrophysics and hearing Plastic Love in the background made me turn my head. Great job Ezekiel!

[@Seyweld98]

It’s hard to imagine how these security and insurance companies won’t just consolidate into states. Minarchism seems much more viable as a system.

[@hermestrismegistus5384]

Incorrect. Minarchism is just minimal slavery... the fear of government taking the place of government is what we have now XD. It is not what would happen in an anarchist society because to get there the majority of a populace would understand and live by non aggression and self defense principles. When people still think like starts try to entertain these ideas, they can't shake whatever foem of control freakism they still hold from their indoctrination

[@Amantducafe]

It does, it is idealistic to think NAP's will stand if a company starts bloating into monopoly levels specially when an ancap thinks they can be competition when the monopoly controls valuable resources like food or water. There is no answer to this nor the accumulation of wealth if anything that's what will happen as time advances and people that have studied ancap textbooks and history agree that it will end up with a feudalist system.

[@ThatGuy-mt7hq]

Were you inspired to write this series by the anarchist handbook by Michael Malice?

[@CallMeEzekiel]

It's because of Michael Malice that I became convinced that anarchism isn't just some meme, but a real political philosophy with proper literature explaining its worldview and goals. Naturally, I figured this knowledge was worth sharing with you guys. Other subjects tangentially related to anarchism will either be subjects of or prominent themes in our next couple of videos. I already said in this one that Austrian Economics will be a major theme in our next video.

[@billzhao1346]

@@CallMeEzekiel Do you identify as an Anarchist? Considering you have a much higher proportion of videos dedicated to libertarian ideas and philosophy compared to other country ball youtubers, I can tell you definitely lean libertarian.

[@panapolyEpirus]

I am a statist but I think anarcho-capitalists are the good few anarchists I could trust.

[@mabimabi212]

Hey, wouldn't you actually pay more in an anarcho-capitalist society instead of a Government one? Like let's say a town needs a fireman station, in an ancap world stations would pop out and compete with each other. Those competing stations still have to factor in operational costs, keeping prices relatively constant. Wouldn't that mean I would have to pay more for fireman services? In ancap, I'd have to pay a private company individually if my house were to catch on fire. But in a government society, every town member would pay a fire tax, effectively paying for the operational costs of one fire station with the least amount payment! Just to make the point, let's say that the operational costs (op) is 100$ and that there were 100 citizens in the town. In ancap, wouldn't 1 citizen have to pay 100$ (or something close to that) to ensure protection? In a government kind, every citizen would just have to pay 1$ periodically, making it cost-effective. How about do it insurance company style? Then at that point why change in the first place? It's still the same system but we've got other stations competing, make it cost-ineffective. Idk is this just one massive strawman?

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Fire insurance was a thing

[@mabimabi212]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 damn fair enough

[@mabimabi212]

@@mangonel Huh that was widespread? I though it was just something Crasuss did.

[@ewinslow822]

Operational costs are kept low due to competition, and costs are split amongst the fire stations since you only need to serve your customers, not everyone in town. Also a little redundancy is probably a good thing.

[@mabimabi212]

@@ewinslow822 shit that makes sense xd

[@tenetgg]

Pretty good summary of the topic, and good book recommendations. You earned a subscription. I will check other videos.

[@pascalausensi9592]

It maybe that I have to much of a Hobbesian outlook, but I can't help but think that a society filled with PMCs acting as insurance agencies would live in a perpetual state of internal strife and war. I mean, becoming the State, that's to say obtaining a monopoly on force, would be in the private interest of each company, right? So in the end you have a bunch of private armies, each perfectly able to use violence, vying for power and control. That to me sound like a recipe for warlords, not prosperous stability.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

One problem in the plan to get a monopoly on force: you can't invade Ancapistan, there's a rifle behind every blade of grass.

[@pascalausensi9592]

​@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 I'm not talking about a foreign invasion, but an internal faction violently taking over. It doesn't matter that everyone is armed and trained (never mind how that ever came to be in the first place without a State), if they are single individuals fighting against well disciplined and organized private corporations. Either there are other organized military units capable of contesting them, in which case you get a war (warlords for the win!). Or there aren't and you either get a State, or the civilians manage to resist by force and you get, you guessed it, war.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@pascalausensi9592 Have you considered the possibility of other companies fighting against the rogue company? And in case you think that single individuals can't be effective in fighting companies, learn what happens when you put botulinum toxin in their water supply.

[@pascalausensi9592]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 I'm not talking about a single rogue. It'd be in the interest of every single military company to snatch power, it stands to reason that practically every single one would try to do so. My point isn't that the civilians can't fight back anyway, but that imo the proposed system would invariably devolve into either war or the creation of a State. It's a simple question of "who watches the watchmen"; who or what prevents the companies from simply taking what they want with force? Without some form of social contract, of a State, the only possible answer are either common agreement or the force of other competing groups. The first case is an impossible utopia. (Overlooking how ironical it'd be for an anarchist society to maintain order through the implied threat of violence) While in the second case you'd have an inherently paranoid, unstable, and war prone system. One where violence ensues at the slightest show of weakness, until at some point a single faction grows strong enough to end the vicious cycle of fighting and establishes a State.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@pascalausensi9592 It would be in the interest of military companies to increase time preference through taxation, which would lower their revenue? Clearly not. But let's say Evil Company, Inc does want to take over Ancapistan. Assuming they could get past the shareholders pulling all their assets, once they begin the attack, people would blacklist Evil Company for multiple violations of the NAP. All the supplies they have is all they will ever have, and once people begin poisoning food, blowing up railways and roads behind their lines, as well as other military companies resisting the attack, entire brigades would begin defecting to the Anarchists.

[@JeroenDoes]

OK so no state but only ensureance companies. The the companies will start using their weapons to fight eachother in order to gain a larger market share. In the end only 1 is left. Having gained a monopoly this company is the new state.

[@cybersaiyan9596]

congrats! you've won at ancapitalism.

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@Sean so you're saying that ancap insurance companies aren't really meaningfully different from state, therefore they're better? like, you didn't really provide a reason as to why their proposed scenario wouldn't happen. you just pointed out how states do the exact same thing.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Unfortunately, the companies had wasted so much money fighting each other that they couldn't make any payouts, and they all went bankrupt.

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 if only there was some sort of organization that could properly protect its people, while not going bankrupt.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@cybersaiyan9596 A company that didn't try to fight other companies.

[@fabianliberty]

Wellspring brought me here, definitely going to check this out

[@silesiaball9505]

Nice. Can't wait to see video about these Austrians. Also, can you do video about distributism?

[@3euine3]

God, Anarcho-capitalism is truly the most American ideology. To ever exist😂

[@crazando]

God bless

[@someguy9293]

God bless America. And Noone else!

[@crazando]

@@someguy9293 I hope God blesses all Christian brothers according to his will

[@alexandruscarlat8026]

Well it checks for everything It's incredibly stupid Extremely capitalist No "big government" No "communism" And lots of "freedom"

[@adrienmartin8798]

No it's def not. Ancap stems from the Austrian school of economist which in turns comes from the French liberal school (Frederic Bastiat) and other thinkers like John locke from England. Even though Rothbard was from the US, America is light years away from it

[@nbmi4613]

Insurance companies wouldn't charge you for protection right then and there when you're being robbed. You obviously would have signed a contract with them a long time ago.

[@Jhanzey]

I'm AnCom and a big proponent of anarchist unity, and I don't think an AnCom or AnCap state could exist alone, it's a contradiction. If people want a capitalist market they'll be forced to go without one in an AnCom society -- vice versa with AnCap. Some sort of split system where a part of the society has capitalism and a part that doesn't would ensure that no one has to be coerced into a system they don't approve of. When you consider how there's really only one major difference between the two schools of thought it's not too wild of an idea. The mutual refusal of being governed by a state would be enough to coexist in my opinion.

[@aestheticjedi1868]

The state doesn't exist, so a commune and a city can exist at the same nation. The state and the nation are two completely different concepts that are often fused by statists and nationalists.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Why can't you buy some land and then start a commune?

[@baph0met]

Ancom is an oxymoron. You can't have an anarchy and people not having private property. Unless you believe in hivemind communism where every single human on Earth agrees that they won't own privately.

[@ferdjur4195]

I am kinda shocked that this was all about security and dialectic of violence. It seems like ancap is not really about changing society but rearranging power to have a more widely spread potential for aggression.

[@TheFirstVonGunther]

The State has the monopoly on violence. To break the State, youve got to get rid of that monopoly. Its the beauty of the 2nd amendment. The Founding Fathers gave us a way to break that monopoly.

[@ferdjur4195]

@@TheFirstVonGunther I'm in favour of democratisation of production to grant an easier access to goods for all and to elect chiefs based on democratic consent of workers rather than investor interest. I'm in favour of a demolition of monopolies and boundaries to grant free access to the knowledge and the beauty of our world. However when that democratisation expands to the potential for violence, it's going to exacerbate the existing conflicts inside a society because now everybody has the means to follow the primal instinct of violence, a very simple and rewarding feeling towards conflict. You made the example of the USA, do you think that an already polarised culture, where groups of people (usually divided along racial lines) who hate eachother and live in the same cities, it won't spiral down in civil conflict?

[@cybersaiyan9596]

but what if we could just get rid of the aggression and pull it out at its roots. what if society wasn't fully militarized all the time, and we could live in peace free of conflict? i think i would rather live in that society. why should we have to live surrounded by violence and destruction? and what about those too weak or poor to defend themselves? where are their place in this society based on defending yourself?

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Si vis pacem, para bellum

[@ferdjur4195]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Si vis pacem, para amicitiae.

[@cgrchopstick5773]

The music and art in this video is stellar, and the information is great and easy to digest. Great work!

[@calebstanley-kemler5445]

This is a very good introduction to an-cap ideas, good job!

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

Wait a minute. Is that bad apple you sneaky bastard 😏

[@mouhou9795]

Wait you didn't even cover lowering the age of consent. That's like ancaps their whole thing.

[@mekingtiger9095]

​​​@@qn2xd But then again, as the meme goes: "But what if the child consents, though?" [Insert Ancapball doing thumbs up meme here]

[@mekingtiger9095]

​@@qn2xd Well, you said "r*pe", and technically, if the other person is willingly allowing it... Still predatory and 110% wrong, of course. But that's the whole point of the meme joking around about it. I still agree with you, though.

[@mekingtiger9095]

​@@qn2xd Fair enough.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@nviolet152 No, children have not had the life experience to contextualise and understand many activities, hence why guardianship is a feature of natural law.

[@bob-lk5et]

@@nviolet152 No teenagers cannot consent They are at a different stage socially, physiologically and mentally compared to an adult Fist off the experience level between a minor and an adult creates all sorts of issues with power dynamics Second a minor is just much less physically developed compared to an adult which increases the risk of injury for the minor as far as physical relationships are concerned Last they are just not mentally developed enough to par take in any serious relationship Again with power dynamics at play which would damage their psychology Please just stay in your moms basement and away from kids

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

Ripped Franceball isn’t real, it can’t hurt you Ripped Franceball:

[@WoadGrizzly]

You're welcome.

[@robeseller6530]

I'm a bit late to the party, so to say, but I have a question: what's stopping the creation of neofeudal entities through amassment of various setors. Someone in the comments already explained that monopolies shouldn't be demonized because they can be genuine, but were assuming that there would be no overlap between industries. But multinacional conglomerates and holding companies exist, and right now are the most afluent of all private enterprises. What's stopping an anarcho-capitalist society turning into a neofeudal plutocracy?

[@crazando]

Well would you sell out to any dude who wants to create a monopoly of your lands and subjugate you or would you hold on to the land?

[@robeseller6530]

@@crazando No, one wouldn't. But what's stopping the perpetrator to just take it by force or other illicit means? Moreover, if money is power, politically and physically (since a big corp could buy more and better weapons and personnel), wouldn't big conglomerates ultimately dominate the hypothetical society? The point of the question is accountability. In an anarco-capitalist society, what mechanism offers accountability?

[@redredred8408]

Parts

[@oddguys178]

Would love to see some statist philosophies covered since you talked about Anarchist philosophies

[@SlapShotTakes]

All the ancappies gangsta till the Amazon Prime death squad rolls up

[@EliW95]

Statist “philosophies”… give me a break. They should only be talked about to mock/expose their absurdities

[@oddguys178]

@eliw4 you would think an Anarchist would be more open minded

[@EliW95]

@@oddguys178 it's not a matter of being 'open minded', it's a matter of rejecting violent aggression, forcible control, and nationalized plunder

[@hermestrismegistus5384]

They would be very comedic xD

[@deutschamerikaner]

The state is pretty cringe ngl

[@CoreyStudios2000]

Maybe try a video on Max Stirner and his philosophy of Egoism?

[@genmontgomeree9888]

Probably a good real-life example of the anarcho-capitalist defence argument is the Italian Renaissance with its heavy use of expensive mercenary armies without actually fighting a lot because there was not enough incentive to sacrifice that army. (The Italian Wars of Kings and Generals mentions something like this since the French army in contrast to Italian armies did not lack this incentive).

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

That would be an awful example, those mercenaries were bought up by authoritarian states.

[@genmontgomeree9888]

@@donaldtrumplover2254 a lot of those positions might have been hereditary, that does not mean all of them were. The Florentine and Venetian republics for example were not authoritarian. Besides this since the people in power had only control of a relatively small piece of land they were limited in their power since when a big protest occured they were unable to sifon forces from other geographical regions unless they had help from outside forces. It can be argued that this small distance between those in power and the population would function as a check and balance on their power, forcing them to take public opinion more serious. I'd say that these things do not make it an awful example.

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@genmontgomeree9888 You know, this is exactly why I think one dos not even necessarily hav3 to explicitly support Ancap in order to get close enough to it: An ever increasing widespread political decentralization of state power in general would be a *GREAT* step towards a similar direction to get close to this system without the need of actually erasing the state, in my opinion. The more decentralized, the better. That and ever increasing separatism everywhere, which essentially is just the same thing on a more... "autonomous" level. So, yeah. Turns out that balkanization and grinding regionalism _is_ the way to go with things, after all. Who would've thought?

[@genmontgomeree9888]

@@mekingtiger9095 ever heard of panarchism? Look it up, I'm sure you'll find it fascinating. There's been some places in the USA where rural republicans have petitioned to leave their state and join a republican majority state next to it, so they can escape the influence of the democratic party which controls the urban centers and thus the majority of the state. If it succeeds it is a perfect example of panarchism in practice since it creates fluid borders.

[@Aneko101]

I wouldn't call mercenaries Ancap since they aren't a covenant private defense force like a firm or militia and rather are a "we create war for money". The point of an Ancap society would be upholding order through natural law which would be property rights starting with self ownership and maintaining general non aggression.

[@zephlodwick1009]

Love the neon art style

[@razenburn]

Insurance companies buying war ships... lol More likely they'll just tell you "we don't cover that" and you'll never travel again.

[@greenbrickbox3392]

Lol yeah you can tell what a serious ideology it is when their starting point is that insurance companies will take on the risk of underwriting national defense, including the parts of national defense which have zero profitability at all to that insurance industry.

[@omerpasa3328]

Nice song selections :D

[@jerseyboi408]

The funny thing is, I align with this more then any other spectrum. I have taken political spectrum tests where I would wind up hating all the multiple choice answers. Closest I'd get is libertarian 🙄. In the same breath I could say ACAB, f the government entirely, and work hard to "git gud" stuffs. Pure freedom, f the system. I don't want free shit, I want to work hard for all my stuff. I don't like paying taxes, and agree that the use of force is monopolized by big daddy government. ❤ The video, will definitely show others to try and see explain most of my views in a nutshell.

[@jazzycup9274]

Libertarian is just a Republican that can read, meanwhile AnCaps are as Anarchist as the Nazi party were Socialist, they're Libertarians in everything but name.

[@lukephillips1331]

this video convinced me even more that this is utopian, pipe dream ideology that can only be believed by children.

[@Amantducafe]

Just the idealistic part of your view, not the reality of it.

[@15098D]

The man who invented a way to sell aiiiiiir

[@cybersaiyan9596]

ancaps unironically think the lorax is a villain. lmao

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Christian Lambertsen.

[@neonschaf]

Air isnt scarce, so it cannot be posessed as property nor saled.

[@Amantducafe]

@@neonschaf It can become scarce if you pollute the air enough and then sell it as a commodity and trust me, it's not hard to pollute the air.

[@Schniedel69]

just dont touch my stuff

[@Aneko101]

Based

[@OneLine122]

I think those insurance companies would go offshore pretty fast in case a big army is coming their way. A place where there is a decent government that protects businesses.

[@danielvictor3262]

Ancaps and their vanilla libertarian cousins are funny because the whole ideology is based on lack of understanding of social responsibility. Plus they think all businesses, especially multinationals, function like their "praexological" (i.e. assumed) examples of small-to-medium enterprises.

[@linstantintello]

Some States justify taxation through other means than simple security. Taxation permits redistribution of wealth, sometimes really effectively reducing inequalities. France's Gini index goes from approx 32 in gross (world bank numbers) to 29,3 after taxation (Eurostat 2020 numbers). Some States like France also guarantee free education, free health insurance, social housing and a diversity of free or cheap services. You are going to say "but you already pay these "free" State services through your taxes !" but it depends to who you're talking to. Less than 50% of French citizens pay taxes, the others are considered too poor to pay them and only pay VAT through their consumption (and I would agree with ancaps that VAT is way too high but that's another subject). Yet these people still enjoy free education, free healthcare, unemployment revenue, minimum social revenue and all the other things. So we are stealing from one richer part of the population to give to a poorer part of it. In anarco-capitalism everyone must pay for all of the services that the State guaranteed freely to the poorest. Also, how do you know that one insurance company won't become a monopoly, de facto becoming a sort of State ? An insurance monopoly would be way worse than a liberal State, as it would not be subjected to checks and balances like liberal "democracies" are. I'm not a State-bootlicker, but this system seems only good on paper

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

In order to justify reducing inequality through taxation, you need to show inequality is an aggressive action. The french are a load of workshy peasants. The only way they are able to pay for this is by taxing industrious immigrants and foreign companies. The economic calculation problem stops one insurance company from becoming a monopoly.

[@linstantintello]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Anglo detected + you clearly don't know how taxes work lmao. 50% of the French State tax revenue comes from the VTA tax, the second largest tax revenue being the income tax. Your ignorance is not surprising

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@linstantintello Not an argument + I don't see how the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has anything to do with tax or France

[@sherryberry4577]

Excellent video! I'd also recommend reading Lysander Spooner's work. Michael Malice put together a collection of prominent anarchists essays called The Anarchist Handbook that is worth the read to. It covers more forms of anarchism tho.

[@albertfaust5839]

Why should I care about someone's property or autonomy? If I own the biggest security corporation in town you bet I will start to extort the others. If I do not own it? Why should I let others extort me? At that point I rather join in the creation effort of a new propper state. At least a state depends on my Well being in an industrial nation.

[@billzhao1346]

Do you identify as an Anarchist? Considering you have a much higher proportion of videos dedicated to libertarian ideas and philosophy compared to other country ball youtubers, I can tell you definitely lean libertarian.

[@doom1894]

He explained already that he makes videos such as these as they give a unique World view that isn’t with the majority of academia and that he finds Philosophy interesting

[@cybersaiyan9596]

@@doom1894 that doesn't necessarily mean that he isn't a libertarian, himself.

[@billzhao1346]

@@cybersaiyan9596 I agree. I've just found it unusual that for a channel that has been dedicated to presenting unique worldview's has only so far focused on presenting libertarian(as in being anti-state, not necessarily propertarian) worldviews. Perhaps this is just his channel's libertarian phase and he'll eventually move onto other ideologies like Maoism and Third International theory but I find it unlikely given how community backed his channel is. His latest community poll's on his economic theories video shows that at least half of his audience believes in Austrian economics and likely have a libertarian worldview. Shifting the channel away from what the largest ideological demographic wants to see is going to be a tough sell especially for a small channel like him.

[@billzhao1346]

This is one of the downsides of independent media that supporters often neglect to mention is that creators often cater to niche audiences which gives them very little wiggle room to overtly change their views. If a mainstream news company like MSNBC decides to lean further left, they can afford to lose a few 1 to 2 percent of viewers that were watching for a more centrist take. If Ezikiel suddenly switches to other ideologies, I'm willing to bet most of his libertarian fanboys are just going to ditch his channel and he's going to lose a significant percentage of his viewers.

[@mcjagergaming]

I must say this is the most fair and honest take and understanding of ancaps and on what a ancap society would be like. Most people hear Anarcho and thing Mad Max, and hear capitalist then think Cyberpunk. Neither are true, and most people who make videos, and talk about ancaps just assume there crazy government haters who live in a underground bunker. Just remember a true ancap is a libertarian first. And to libertarians freedom is the most important thing in the world.

[@Aneko101]

The main problems seem to stem from people thinking Anarchy is lawlessness when it just means without rulers. That and conflating Capitalism with being pro corporation when historically corporations are very much Socialist in nature as they're just arms of the state in general.

[@ancapgrandscribe9546]

@@Aneko101 Exactly, Rothbard can even point out to these economic illiterates if they are not lazy enough to actually read a book by him that Socialism is the key for monopolies, the key to these corporations who derive their power over their competitors through the Government, their cartelization powers through Government.

[@ancapgrandscribe9546]

Yup Mcjager, lots are just flat out communists or ancoms themselves strawmanning, talking crap, lying or just flat out misrepresenting the ideology through their lackluster propaganda.

[@legalfictionnaturalfact3969]

Libertarian is just a stop on the way to anarchist. The same arguments you can make against big govt can be made against small govt. 0 rulership is acceptable.

[@brandenburgquentinthe3rd532]

@@Aneko101 that would be implying the state was also socialist, inna capitalist society profit is king, corporations can make use of economies of scale, making products cheaper, faster and in greater abundance thus outcompeting local rivals, corporations are capitalist in nature, to say otherwise would be to deny the existance of states like china that are state capitalism

[@RefugioAnarco]

Anarcho-capitalism is the best political ideology there is

[@mekingtiger9095]

Ancap is heavily based and inspired by individualistic principles that claim that all individuals are sovereign, so yeah, no wonder it is the most coherent political ideology, at least on an ethical ground (whether or not it actually works when put into practice is another entire story). In my (very biased, of course) opinion, there is no more humanist moral stance than individualism itself (which is not to be confused with being a selfish A-Hole).

[@Aneko101]

Based

[@EthanPineapple]

When you're 13.

[@Aneko101]

@@EthanPineapple Nah that's collectivism as a whole lol.

[@2vexy]

That must be why it's never worked anywhere.

[@Aneko101]

Gotta love how so many of the comments still base their view of Anarcho Capitalism off of memes and strawmen along with just blatant denial of history.

[@BiturixTaranuncnos]

So... capitalism is characterized by private property, correct? And theft violates the NAP, the main tenet of an-cap-ideology, right?

[@lukephillips1331]

no, i base it off of realism. your ideology has no basis in reality and has been shit show in any instance that it’s been tried or something popped up that resembled it. it only makes sense if you’re a 15 year old who has never had an experience in the real world. and for people starting their first job who think the government is stealing their wages and not the company that’s severely underpaying them.

[@CarpenterBrother]

​@@lukephillips1331 If a company is underpaying you, you can work for another company. If all companies are underpaying you and they are not afraid of you not working for them, then your labor is just isn't worth what you think it worths. The value of your work is decided the same way the value of any other good is decided. I think you are just so used to being oppressed by the state that you cannot imagine any alternative. Stockholm syndrome type sh##.

[@lukephillips1331]

@@CarpenterBrother idealistic one aren’t ya

[@otaviourso]

​@@lukephillips1331Then how would you resolve this problem?

[@Canario_27]

Boy this chanel is criminally underated

[@maxlostchild7187]

Amazing video

[@LG-bd2qf]

Does that mean that a serial killer can just murder poor people in an ancap society?

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

no

[@lichkingdk99]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Let me get this straight, What is stopping a rando rich guy from going on a killing spree of every hobo he sees, after all said hobos have absolutly no way to defend themselfs as they dont have any capital to purchase any kind of weaponry or "Insurance" (after all security is a basic need and those are tantamount to taxation since you NEED them as in there isn't rly much room for competition) While the rich guy can rock up with the best weaponry money can buy, also there is no codified law and the dead can't neither sue nor pay for a lawer so....

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

@@lichkingdk99 A person who commits a crime and gets away with it will likely re-offend, so the man's own insurance would end up arresting him in order to avoid having to make pay-outs for their other clients.

[@younggamer7218]

@@thefrenchareharlequins2743 but what if he only targets those uninsured. What is the incentive to arrest him then in your society

[@NH2iqball]

@@younggamer7218 also ehat if he pays the insurance company to not interfere in his hobo killing hobby

[@The_Romanian_Terror]

6:47 ma dude got a s10 damn good phone

[@isry1390]

anarcho-capitalism is true anarchy, the best ideology ⚫🟡

[@Aneko101]

Based

[@Rehunauris]

Ancaps replace one government with multiple private governments and hope it won't go badly. If i'm customer of insurance company PLUSINSU (cheapest contracts) but my citys airspace, ports, roads, and lands around it are owned by company BNIPP (too expensive for me) what doesn't allow PLUSINSU use anything they own... what i'm gonna do? My insurance company cannot reach me so i'm more or less forced to be customer of BNIPP. And since everything is unregulated nothing stops toll road owners putting insane costs for travelling and of then you'd have no choice except pay whats demanded.

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

There's no governments by definition of the term "ancap"

[@therecalcitrantseditionist3613]

I enjoyed the video, you seemingly went for a a straight telling of what ancaps believe, which is all you could ever ask for in such a video. The only point i think needs to be adressed is the discussion of what ancaps think may replace the state. The scenario you showed in one heavily written and talked about within ancapism. But i feel the need to point out, It's A scenario. Any honest ancap will tell you that we dont amd cant know how such a fundamental change in society will effect things, or how people will react to it. Or what events might happens. so futuristic scenarios are more thought experiments of how a society could exist under these principles, more than a "this is how a post state ancap society will turn out." That's there are also different views on this. I think in reality, the decentralized nature of such a society, would mean a patchwork of various approaches and ideas to these issues more than any one solution

[@jero37]

Yes. When I heard about Stephen Pinker's comments about the monopoly on violence resting with the state, I recoiled in horror. And I definitely think the framers would be hardcore Libertarians today. In the absence of sufficient political will to dismantle the state I do try to conceive the most acceptable compromise with the statists I can manage.

[@Warsie]

George Washington sent in an army to crush a rebellion....