Damus
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Anarcho-capitalists ignore economic coercion. Can there be freedom of choice under economic coercion? No anarcho-capitalist has a convincing answer to this, and their entire theory falls apart. The ...
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You criticize economic coercion, but you ignore the fact that much of this coercion only arises today through state privileges: fiat money with its Cantillon effect, patent protection, subsidies, and regulatory barriers to entry that benefit large corporations. With hard money like Bitcoin and without state-protected special rights, such concentrations of power would be significantly harder to maintain. Furthermore, a free market means voluntary exchange—not the reduction of all value to money. People, including children, are not commodities, but independent legal subjects; this argument is therefore a category error.