[bassman9000]

Yet we still suffer from a great deal of police corruption and mistreatment, because government employees can coordinate well to create a blue wall of silence.

So, to fix one minor problem, we're getting rid of equality before law, and paving the way for feudalistic corporations, getting one step closer to Snow Crash?

No, thanks.

[Karunamon]

Equality before law doesn't exist right now. Being rich carries with it connections and enhanced representation that gets one out of many crimes scot free that would be life-ruining to you or me.

[enord]

And replacing criminal proceedings with cash fines improves this how?

[394549]

> And replacing criminal proceedings with cash fines improves this how?

Because apparently the solution for not living in a utopia is to deliberately construct something that will obviously be a dystopia.

[bassman9000]

Argue how the proposed system would be any better, in this particular aspect you're pointing out, than the current one.

[fao_]

I'm not really sure why you're getting downvoted. You make a perfectly good point that is recognized in most intellectual circles -- anarcho-capitalism (which is basically the core proposal here) is strongly related to feudalism.

[bassman9000]

I'm pretty libertarian myself. But I got my limits. The HN cynical would rather spout we don't have it today, with no alternative, no proposed solution, and always bowing to the Grand Liberating Corporations of the valley.