Unions would be pretty much pointless in a free society - people found joining a union could be fired, quickly replaced, blacklisted, and would have a very hard time finding work every again. Unions operate entirely through violence: trespassing, violation of contract, destruction of property, and of course institutionalized government force. The people that form corporations do have a Right to defend themselves and their property!
And it's ok to hire death squads to keep the bottling fast and smooth, so that the $ flow is kept even ? Nice. In your "free society" the existence of vast numbers of people would be pretty pointless actually, meaning those without the traits ( think of modelling industry - accidental facial features making bucks for their owner ) and abilities deemed valuable by the all knowing free market, and don't tell me they should learn, some people are just galactically stupid ( which breaks down to lausy brain function, irrelevant of anything like free will ) and some just won't be able to get the skills if they can't afford the training ( and they're broke in the first place because they don't have the skills, maybe they would go to school.... but oh.... wait.... there are no free schools anymore or are but thanks to anti tax sentiments they went the road of California's public education since 1978's Proposition 13).
I don't see libertarianism as anything else than just a fancy shmancy party dress for the good old Victorian social darwinism, updated with a crappily written novel that
Atlas Shrugged is. You will say that in free society there will still be voluntary charity, but tell me how the future reign of atheism that we can be certain about will help in that ? It's safe to say that enourmously large part of charital activity today is spurred by religious incentives ( like the Islamic zakat ), when people stop believing in afterlife, why would they work to get to heaven by helping the poor stupid bums, who will become as important as used toilet paper to them?
On the end note, the history of my country in the eighties shows that all the tresspassing and violation of contract may be in synch with fight for individualism - Solidarity Movement ( who were for most part religious lunatics and that idiot Wałęsa on top of this, but still ).
The appeal of libertarian capitalist philosophy tends to correlate with logical reasoning skills, so you'll find more libertarian freelance programmers and .com entrepreneurs than office network plumbers. You will not find many lighthouse keepers or remote weather station operators who are libertarians.
Nicely phrased, but I'm affaraid it has more to do with the appeal of big cash that the .com entrepreneur will be more likely to put his hands on than the plumber. I don't know about studies showing the correlation between high IQ and adhering to Anarcho Capitalism, but I know about the study showing correlation between low levels of empathy and Anarcho Capitalism
http://www.asymptosi...d-sympathy.html . Don't take this personally, I'm not saying you particular Alex Libman are a soulless greedy asshole. We are all soulless in the end right ?
, I just don't think it's fair to ideologically justify this with BS concepts like "the virtue of selfishness".
Edited by chris w, 18 May 2010 - 01:50 PM.