Ayn Rand's Capitalist Paradise Is Now a Greedy Land-Grabbing Shitstorm

[DirkGently]

37. Aaaand you'd still need a "rule" against "rulers."

It's just an inanely childish concept. "Private enforcement" gets you to "coercion" just as quickly as a government or a leader, except without any assurances of fair or equitable treatment. You'd get warlords or corporate city-states, or another power structure immediately -- just as has always occurred from the beginning. Instead of the state or the country being The Man, it would be a copper mine or a criminal syndicate or something else. People in groups over a dozen or so do not share power in a fair and equitable manner outside of a governing structure of some kind.

Granted, the anarchists I've run into, who claim to have studied the more formal thinking about it -- "affinity groups!" probably have not, but they inevitably tend to be some pediatrician's kid who looks around and thinks all of the benefits of formal organized power structures are intrinsic to human nature and would remain in the absence of government, because they cannot fathom for an instant what an actual lack of such structure would look like or the "coercion" that would take place regardless.