Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "How To Clean Up The Welfare State" video.

  1. Ancap is feudalism. A bunch of private property owners running around doing what they want with no governing body of the people, laws, or justice system, above them.
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  2.  @freedomlover9196   Lol, I know exactly what feudalism is. It started with a bunch of medieval cattle (fihu) barons with no laws or regulations above them. When they'd have property disputes, they'd settle them privately. Eventually some expanded their private property claims. They'd form family alliances expanding private property claims. Expansion. Expansion. Until one claimed to personally own a large enough region to declare themselves king of a kingdom. Again, at that level, there were also multiple other private property owning kings, with no law or regulation above them, who claimed ownership of entire kingdoms. You simply referenced the highest level private property owner, the highest feudal lord, making whatever rules they wanted for living on their private property, enforcing those rules with their private army, and charging whatever they wanted for living and working on their private property. It was only a parliament, and the removal of a monarch's power, that created a governing body above the highest private property owner, and an end to their monopoly on land and power.
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  3.  @freedomlover9196  It's not even ancient history. The same thing was happening on the Western frontiers, where there was little in the way of consistent law and order. Cattle barons, feeling like they could do what they want, hired private armies of cowboys, attacked sheep herders, and others. They were stopped by the law moving in, but still lasted into the 20th century. The early medieval feudal lords used livestock as currency, mainly cattle, long before they ever started minting currency. They were medieval cattle barons, usually starting out as a growing family clans, with a head of the family. A King being nervous of a possible peasant uprising isn't the same as the peasants being in control of a government of the people for the people, and being able to make laws over the king and other nobles.
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  4.  @freedomlover9196  But you're describing an armed citizenry defending a parliament, a government of the people for the people, against a private property owner with a monopoly. The people became the government. Like I said. Private property owners with no authority above them gave them that King. A democratic government of the people for the people should be able to be toppled with voting. Republicans have shown the US maybe made that too hard to do. Many countries can simply have a no confidence vote, and don't make a big to do over ditching a shit leader.
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  5.  @freedomlover9196  It's a democratic republic, dumbass.
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  6. And abolish the state taxing people to protect property and resource claims? If people want to build on that property, or use those resources, they're free to do so?
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