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by fallingfrog 1386 days ago
Anarcho-capitalism? Not to beat a dead horse, but there's no capitalism without a strong central state. The state is not organized in opposition to capitalism; the state is a central component of the capitalist system. It's not a coincidence that the modern state and modern market capitalism appear in the historical record at precisely the same moment.

I think our big problems are mostly due to inadequate control over capitalism due to globalization making it too easy for large companies to avoid oversight and become parasitic and attack their host. The need for short term profit then becomes the only thing that those companies optimize for, leading to a death spiral of short term thinking.

Anarcho-capitalism is certainly not going to help any of that.