Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Lex Fridman argues with Michael Malice about Anarchy" video.

"A state is unique in that it acquires its goods by force" Do we want to return to a more Athenian model, where private citizens used their fortunes to build ships to defend the Republic? Would we really be better off, if Bezos had an aircraft carrier group or two?
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"Worst case is that we're back where we started, and Google becomes as powerful as the federal government." We can't vote for Google policies. That's a far worse case, as we're beginning to see.
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Poland's nobility had the right to go their own way and refuse to allow the group speak for the individual. Poland was partitioned by Austria, Russia, and Prussia in 1772 as a result. There are too many historical examples of catastrophic failure directly traceable to Malice's type of thinking, that could only have been avoided by avoiding this type of thinking. I do not think that someone so obviously intelligent as Malice is unaware of this.
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"Could you imagine if UPS could just take 20% of the Postal Services' revenue?" Would they be obligated to serve markets that were not commercially viable, with that money? Would they have the obligations of a public utility, by accepting that money? Yet here we are, and somehow UPS still exists, even with that 20% being drained away (although now that Amazon is delivering its own packages, it's tough to tell how long that will last.)
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The point was not to "ransack" Iraq. The point was to put it on the same path as South Korea, Germany, or Japan. After 20 years, each of those places still wasn't the "miracle" or the "strong democracy" that they became. And in all three places, we're still there.
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"The State wants one big neck, with one big leash around it." Here, I actually agree with Malice. This drive for the petty bureaucrats to prefer consolidation because that helps their mediocre intellects (and let's face it, compared to well-functioning market emergence, every human or inhuman intellect is mediocre) to navigate the complexities of everything a country consists of, that drive to consolidate is naturally oppressive. George Orwell was part of an army that tried to operate in an Anarchic way, though. It didn't work out so well. Does he ever address this?
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@tommyjado127 Weird that someone with Malice's preferences would attempt to impose a purely moralistic binary "right / wrong" dichotomy.
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"Government forces people who run businesses well to run them poorly, by people who don't run businesses at all." When Lex mentioned "difficult decisions", frequently those decisions are ones where you have to pick winners and losers, and those whose interests are deprecated, object to that. Those decisions are an inevitable part of "running businesses well." Does Malice not consistently insist that anyone whose interests are deprecated in a decision, has an absolute right to remove themselves from the any process where they find themselves on the losing side of any such decision? What is "forcing someone who runs a business well to run a business poorly" other than those on the losing side, attempting to avoid the consequences of those decisions?
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@cacodemon_doom So you know how much an aircraft carrier costs, compared to your typical small business' profit margins?
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@ramonalejandrosuare The war and subsequent rebuilding was more costly than the value of all the oil reserves in Iraq. Your take is an extremely common one (you might even say compelling) until you actually run the numbers. Then you realize it's wrong.
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@ramonalejandrosuare Do you have anything that makes this more than a conspiracy theory?
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