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Cykros · 1w
Anarchist (ancap anyway) principles boil down to individuals, not societies. If you're minding your own business, not aggressing, you're doing the thing. If others are interacting with you on those te...
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> Or it could look more horizontal where a bunch of farmers each either maintain their own defenses and collaborate with their neighbors, or who perhaps hire defense forces.

Which is how we are organized now, more or less. It is economically infeasible for each person to defend their own property. Kind of like the volume to surface area of a sphere. So people form arrangements with internal dispute mechanisms and then external dispute mechanisms. That looks like a state.

But how did they get their property to begin with? Land property particularly. It all comes down to "this is mine and there's nothing you can do about it", everything else is an abstraction of that, for better or worse. *He who can defend his claim owns the land." The law of the jungle underpins everything.

https://falkvinge.net/2017/03/01/a-simplified-taxless-state-a-proposal-part-1/
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Hanshan · 1w
"the state owns all land" Very cool essay. i wonder what nostr:nprofile1qqsd6ejdteqpvse63ntf7qz6u9yqspp4z7ymt8094urzwm0x2ceaxxg5g7l0j has to say about it...
Cykros · 1w
This is largely true. There's a case to be made for the just acquisition of property through improvement of wilderness by stewardship as opposed to simply staking a claim, but we still get the fun of dealing with the fact that a lot of property exists and may have gotten there by theft or other prob...