[rayiner]

I think it's time to reconsider a lot of state licensing regimes. But the fact that they're licensing regimes isn't what makes them bad. Licensing regimes are a perfectly reasonable way for the state to control behavior that involves negative externalities. I think almost everyone agrees that governments shouldn't allow factories to be created in residential areas, or allow drivers to drive without liability insurance.

[tptacek]

Careful: ancaps, hardly an Internet endangered species, definitely don't agree with this.

[zachlipton]

And we don't necessarily have to take every single view seriously. The vast majority of people don't want a massive polluting factory built next to their single-family home. The fact that a few people disagree doesn't mean that every project get bogged down in a discussion of the legitimacy of zoning as a concept.

[alexeisadeski3]

Ancaps simply have more efficient ways of keeping the polluting factories away from homes than existing zoning processes can achieve.

[alexeisadeski3]

>I think almost everyone agrees that governments shouldn't allow factories to be created in residential areas, or allow drivers to drive without liability insurance.

Zoning is not needed for the former.