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Re:Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as th... by The_Colonel on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:37PM (#38351230)
Anarcho-capitalism provides suitable conditions for strongmen, religious leaders, little feudal lords to impose their views on the less powerful, so I don't necessarily view a contradiction.
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Re:Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as th... by buzzert on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:06PM (#38353806)
> strongmen, religious leaders, little feudal lords to impose their views on the less powerful

Can you explain how this is different than a government?

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Re:Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as th... by JAlexoid on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:27PM (#38354157)
It's not. Ancapistan is basically a small scale absolute monarchy.
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Re:Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as th... by The_Colonel on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:58PM (#38356798)
The lords are smaller scale, have more of an absolute power, not bound by things like laws and such.

To me, it seems like a repeat of history, we had an anarcho-capitalist society already, but people started to self-organize into larger groups with rules, tradition, processes ⇾ states.

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Re:Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as th... by johngladtj on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:38AM (#38361013)
Smaller in scale yet more absolute power? Do you think a large and powerful government has less power than a local feudal lord??
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Re:Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as th... by The_Colonel on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:12AM (#38361707)
Yes, large governments have less power over an individual. The president / prime minister can't decide that I deserve to be executed for a traffic offense.

A small feudal lord has fewer subjects, but also fewer (no) limits. Nothing preventing him from killing you without repercussions on a whim.

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Re:Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as th... by johngladtj on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:40AM (#38362851)
You stance does not bear out in reality I'm afraid.
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