I'm not even picking some random libertarian to make fun of, this dude is a scholar at Cato
You'd think a libertarian, with their obsession with private businesses, would understand that revenue =! earnings.
Where does he think that $15k a year comes from? Oh right, tax payers. And what's taxation? Theft. Fucking can't even keep their own ideology consistent in a goddamn elevator pitch.
The only ideologically consistent libertarians are ancaps (lol), the others just pick and choose which government spending is theft or not.
That's not a contradiction; ancaps believe that the enforcement of private property can also be privatized. You have to dig a little deeper. But I promise it'll be worth it, because the conclusion is even dumber.
Privatizing enforcement is allowed in anarcho capitalism. At which point someone's private army can enforce whatever contract terms they want on whoever has a weaker one. Which can be anything, because a contract can be anything that people consent two without government coercion ("agree to my terms in exchange for not being mowed down by my army" is a fair contract (lol)). So a large private army could enforce exactly the body of law of, say, the US government, and that's okay in ancapistan.
And that's the real contradiction of anarcho capitalism - it permits all possible governments, yet somehow is supposed to be opposed to the form of government we have now.
What is a government if not a bloated private army that has laid claim over a land by contract
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agree to my terms in exchange for not being mowed down by my army
No, see, this is impossible, because everyone has to follow the NAP
Raising a private army needs a lot of money, and the largest private army (the one that gets to dictate terms) will be the most expensive. That money comes from the profit from voluntary transactions; if the people participating in these transactions did not want there to be a giant private army they would not trade with the giant-private-army-haver. Thus by virtue of the fact that someone has a giant private army, we can conclude that the majority of people consent to this state of affairs. So there's no violation of the NAP, you got into this situation via a series of voluntary transactions.
(lol.)
Private property is an artificial construct which requires a state to maintain it.
That's not true, you could easily let your feudal lord have sexual congress with whomever in your household, his abundant choice of marijuana products, or petroleum in exchange for his mercy.
The ass, grass, or gas doctrine if you will.
Definitely, Ancapistan would be a literal dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Simple, just have a bunch of microschools teaching different subjects, and have all the microschools in the same building so that kids can walk between classes. Now we need some kind of administration to organise these microschools and make sure they don't overlap. Whoops I just invented a school.
Ok, but the difference is that all of the microschools are now in a WeWork office building.
Thus generating more revenue for WeWork! See libertarians are right after all.
I looked him up, and now I'm even angrier. Why are people giving him a platform to speak? The New York Times, even. He doesn't have any qualifications at all. He most likely reads at an 8th grade level. This is like #4758 that the "marketplace of ideas" is a stupid concept. Arrggghhhh. This shit makes me so mad.
And that, kids, is why averages aren't always meaningful. We spend an average of $15k per kid on public schools because some kids require more than $15k and not every household has an extra $15k. That also includes money from households without children. So, the public pools its money for the collective benefit of educating people.
This is willfully stupid and ignorant on that dickhead's part.
