[wongarsu]

> why go with a single bike theft

because of

> Stealing a bike here has become normalized - as in, "my bike got stolen, I need to get home so I'll just steal another"

There's three options:

1. We abolish ownership

2. Everyone is responsible for protecting his own stuff, resorting to vigilante justice if he finds the thief after the fact

3. The taxes we pay fund police and courts to bring justice.

Option 1 is a version of socialism, option 2 is anarchy, that only leaves us option 3 if we want capitalism.

[acoard]

>There's three options:

All your options assume a perfectly rational world. The world we have now is not one of those 3 options, but it exists. Things are often internally contradictory.

[Izkata]

There are capitalistic (albeit not thorough) versions of 1 - rentals [0] and services (Uber/etc)

[0] https://www.divvybikes.com/

[wongarsu]

On Rentals I would disagree. Most rentals today depend on 3: to reclaim the money from the original purchase they force every user to pay, using police and court system as the means to enforce that payment and to prevent theft. Maybe in an anarchy rentals would also be quite successful by centralizing the problem of keeping property safe.

Services like Uber are interesting because they essentially strive to eleminate ownership by eleminating the thing to be owned.