god, it’s so tiring. These people legitimately believe that natural monopolies never exist and the only monopolies are created by the government. It’s so fucking tiring and just impossible to argue with someone when all of their points are just so wrong. I can post some of their worst offenders if anyone wants to see them.
Ancaps are idealists in the sense that they don't interrogate the world as it exists but rather imagine a world in which ancap rules already exists. So ask an ancap how exactly they would build an ancap society in the world as it exists today where there is no more "unclaimed" land left lmao. Revolution? Rebellion? Lol.
Imagine you're a capitalist with a lot of money sitting around. Ancaps think that the most market rational thing for you to do is invest that money in ways that will return the biggest profits. Cool, makes sense. But this is where reality starts to diverge from ancap ideology. If I have a lot of money, then why would I risk it on developing new products when I could spend a fraction of that on a politician who will give me tax cuts, tariffs on foreign competition, or will allow me to be even more vicious towards labor. Investing in R&D is extremely risky. Which is why you can see drastic cuts in corporate R&D budgets over the past 50 years. Why would I drop millions on hiring more scientists and engineers to create much better products when I could do the absolute minimum in terms of R&D and buy out the political system. A political system, by the way, that other capitalists set up to allow them to do exactly this.
Ancaps ignore the fact that land and resources are finite. Their idea works great up until there is no land left for anyone to acquire and create their ideal wonderland in.
It's frontier colonialism with natives removed spun out into absolute madness.
Yes if the world functioned like fucking minecraft and had an infinite amount of land just magically generating as you walk off into the distance then we'd have no monopolies or issues with land, laws, resources and so on and so forth.
But we fucking don't. And therefore when all the land is owned everything will turn into a corporate dictatorship monstrosities pretty much overnight. You're also fucking kidding yourself if you think the owners of that land won't go to war with each other to acquire other pieces of land if they see it as plausible expansion of their empires when the primary motivator in their society is profit.
Fully Enslaved Austere Straight Space AnCapism is their only salvation