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But your @ in the replys so I can add you we already have some members.

I am in need of some interaction with other ancaps. I like instagram way more than reddit so I was wondering if anyone one has a group chat of just ancaps where we can talk about ancap send memes and have a good time. If someone does please give me your @ so I can add you!

I have heard some people make some connections to past places that apparently anarcho capitalist for example the republic of cospia , medievil Iceland, and the wild west. Does anyone else have any historical examples I dont know about?

prefacing that I don't know much about anarcho capitalism

it is my understanding that capitalism requires currency to work effectively, so how would currency be adopted at scale without centralization?

I see no benefit that prompts corporations or individual to defend invation. When this society is under attack, they are most likely to flee not fight

I believe this is the most realistic road to an ancap society. More people not belonging to any specific country, paying as little tax as possible and move to a competing state as soon as something isn't to their liking.

But, I guess it does require some sacrifices to be mobile like that, and you will still have some government interference in your life, especially when crossing borders.

I think governments will start to counter this more and more, with exit tax, or by taxing you for your passport regardless of where you live.

Genuinely, is there any fundamental difference, in an otherwise entirely unregulated system, between ‘John’s farming company’ which owns and farms land around the size of a small European country, headquartered in a ‘Johnstown’ built by John for the purpose of housing all his managers and accountants and the like alongside all the most luxurious amenities money could buy, makes money to fund John company (and lavish lifestyle ) by selling food to nearby cities and other companies, and has a team of guards to stop rival food companies from throwing matches into his grain fields, people squatting on his land, and people breaking their contracts

With ‘the kingdom of Johnlandia’ ruled by king John in its capital city of Johnstown, where king John houses all his courtiers, advisors, and nobles( whose were granted power over some of his land to manage it in his name) as well as hall of the most lavish amenities his kingly coffers can afford him funded by the farms his nobles manage on his vast tracts of land?

If a 17th century explorer went to the land owned by John’s company, would he even think of it as a different governmental system, or the same one with a different cultural context?

Or I guess I’m trying to ask is in the absence of further regulating bodies to an outside observer without cultural context wouldnt a company appear to be a governing body where legislative and executive power is vested in the owner / the CEO and board of directors. Or a least be indistinguishable from a system organized in such a way

Let's say an abduction incident occurs. It is indisputable that the person committing the abduction is guilty in an anarcho-capitalist system, but there could be difficulties in uncovering the crime. For instance, if the perpetrator locks the abducted person in their basement and refuses to let investigators into their property, this situation would need to be considered legitimate under an anarcho-capitalist system. As a result, the crime might go undetected, which is problematic. This issue is troubling me.

I would like to discuss all the possible ramifications of AI among the most popular forms of AI today:

1. Text models
2. Image generation

How government will try to ban AI?
Governments can't in any way possible lock people from using AI.
Stable Diffusion is open source, free and can run in most machines with GPU.
Some Text models can be run locally. With the development of AI and GPUs will make it more accessible.

How can AI impact in copyright laws?
AI Image generation can make impossible some copyright laws. "Artist" are extremely salty about AI.

Will AI continue improving, or will it stagnate?

For our podcast this week, we are discussing Nietzsche's essay, The Anti-Christ. In it he describes gives a brief description of good and evil, suggesting that Christianity is inherently evil due to its valorization of weakness and pity.

This argument feels very close in construction to Hoppe, Rose Wilder Lane, and Rand in their notions of virtue coming form self-directed productivity in place of social systems that naturally promote weakness and reliance on the state.

I don't actually know tons about what Hoppe, Lane, or Rand thought of Nietzsche though. What do you think of this parallel?

"What is good?—Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man.
What is evil?—Whatever springs from weakness.
What is happiness?—The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome.
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu, virtue free of moral acid). The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. And one should help them to it. What is more harmful than any vice?—Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak—Christianity" (Nietzsche - The Anti-Christ)

If you are interested, here is a link to the full episode:
Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-28-1-the-democrat-among-gods/id1691736489?i=1000668254714
Youtube - https://youtu.be/BLpnG3F7yTk?si=3QgFfTJUhfTEg0je

By no means i don't think trump is perfect to understand libertarianism but something in my mind makes me think trump has some sympathy to the philosophy. What's your thoughts?

I'm sure to the idiots in the back they always like to ask this dumb question every single time lol xD. Let's smash this crap lol

This has been on my mind lately. I was thinking about this deeply. I would personally say credit companies act similar to insurance firms to give you more financial freedom to spend money however you want. My issue is primarily due to government intervention that causes the debt burden to be a thing. Also, in terms of a credit score system, I would say that's socialist in nature because if you know how to spend and save your money, there shouldn't be any means to hold a credit rating on you unless you don't pay your debt on time, so therefore you owe money to the company you spend money on based on the interest built off of it. I would say in practice a credit company operates through consumer marketized means, but when the government gets involved, it forces competition out and gives big corporate credit card companies the means to push scandalous means to defraud people into credit card spending schemes to put stupid people into debt. 

🤔 been on my mind lately

I figured I'd ask this because I was curious. I tend to see a lot of propaganda ran by government all the time. For example, Nazi Zombies from Call of Duty is always pushed out every single time. Why is it the fact that the state pushes that propaganda every day? Is that mainly due to the fact that the statist population must remained feared by an invisible enemy created by govt to push a hegelian dialetic model to create problems out of thin air to expand its monopoly control? It's been a quite a journey for me to think about this but I figured I'd ask.

Long story short I tend to see a lot of objectivist garbage hating of Libertarians/ancaps. If anything the philosophy sounds good at first but then eventually the Randian retardation start sperging out like irrational idiots as usual making illogical arguments against Libertarians. I'd say they should be shunned away and ridiculed for who they are. Objectivism is just as dumb as a communist mindset.

Figured I'd ask this because I think the corruption that exists now in 🥊 is clearly state run and lots of bad actors are protected under that umbrella. What would the decentralized free market of ancap philosophy help the sport? I want the sport to change and I think libertarianism would eliminate a lot of bad crap of it cursed by govt.

I've seen a lot of far-leftists make the claim that ancap is feudalism but with extra steps but I want to know how would you respond to this claim?

This isn't a question about ethics since there's nothing about urban planning or real estate development that violates the NAP, but how do you feel about the concept of someone sitting down with pen and paper and drawing out a city or residential area? I personally don't like it. It essentially means there's going to be restrictions on where people can put houses, businesses, how transportation must work, etc. It also means you won't technically own the land your house or business is on because whatever you have is beholden to the rules set by the city hall or town committee or HOA or whatever. It's not too different from having to answer to a state and be granted their permission in order to go about your business. I'd much prefer it if towns and businesses can form more organically and spontaneously, the way everything else in the free market happens.

If given all the powers of a state, why wouldn't a corporation behave like a state?

Us ANCAPs what this more than anyone but I have never really seen a game plan on where when and how we can make anarcho capitalism a strong and consistent way of life. so I was wondering if anyone could tell me how we can make this happen?

I understand IP would not exist in ancap (a soda company could not take an individual or group of individuals to court for “stealing” their soda recipe or even taking the name “Cool Cola”) but what if company A, Smith Sodas, has built a reputation for their sodas and some random group of individuals makes some nasty cola and just decides to use the “Smith Sodas” label and stick it on their nasty soda to profit off of Smith Sodas’ reputation, thus also damaging Smith Sodas’ reputation with their bad product?

1. How would I, the consumer, know when I’m getting a legit Smith Soda product and it some counterfeit product simply using their label?

2. How would Smith Sodas deal with people trying to pass off their product as a Smith Sodas product? Do they have a sort of copyright claim to ensure consumers that any given batch of sodas is legitimate from an actual Smith Sodas producer?