Well put. According to our lolbertarian friends, these megacorps having their boots on our necks is not a violation of the NAP, but us trying to remove it is.
That's because this particular brand of lolbertarianism when taken to its logical conclusion results in absolute monarchy. If a megacorp owns all the land in a region and can do whatever it wants with the land, and everyone on its land is obligated to comply with whatever dictates it wants, how is that any different than the old feudal system?
At least Hoppe is honest that he wants states to be absolute monarchies, and has the good sense to want to forcibly remove communists.
In defense of Hoppe, absolute monarchy is a lesser evil than corporate domination. The monarch in question is, at least theoretically, obliged to take care of the res publica, as opposed to serving private interests. If that does not happen, then you get revolts, because people expect some regard for the public interest. Not so with corporations.
If a megacorp owns all the land in a region and can do whatever it wants with the land, and everyone on its land is obligated to comply with whatever dictates it wants, how is that any different than the old feudal system?
Because capitalism and expansive private ownership is what fucking ended feudalism. Corporations are pushing for feudalism, which involved the state building guild systems which were the only legal entities allowed to engage in certain forms of commerce. Feudalism is the heaviest possible form of regulation outside Stalinist Communism.
Why don't corporations just buy up entire cities? Why did the mining towns stop?
Because it's utterly impractical and totally unaffordable without a state protecting them at every level, and subsidizing them to an extreme. Corporate Colonialism and Slavocracy is what they are doing. Colonialism and Slavery are unprofitable because they waste vast resources on shit that doesn't directly contribute to generating a good or service that someone wants. The American South was made under-developed by slavery as an institution. The British Empire was remarkably unprofitable by their own damn records. Colonialism is a shit business practice because it's inefficient.
Why did "Corporate Campuses" return? Because The government (both California and the US federal) subsidized them and convinced entire swathes of the population that private ownership of property was a vast right-wing conspiracy theory. Don't own anything, don't ask to own anything, let the insurance company pay for everything, give your money to the bank, and your pension to the investment firm, and you'll be happy. All while a corporatist legal structure attacks competition, entrapanuership, and sole proprietorship at every possible angle in an economy based on Keynesian Socialist economics and Fabian Socialist politics.
It's massively unprofitable for society as a whole and taxpayers in particular, but if you're the megacorp getting all of your costs socialised while you keep all of the profits private it's a pretty sweet gig.
Almost precisely. The corporations themselves are public entities, they do redistribute wealth to their public investors, but they keep the top cuts to themselves.
Well put. According to our lolbertarian friends, these megacorps having their boots on our necks is not a violation of the NAP, but us trying to remove it is.
That's because this particular brand of lolbertarianism when taken to its logical conclusion results in absolute monarchy. If a megacorp owns all the land in a region and can do whatever it wants with the land, and everyone on its land is obligated to comply with whatever dictates it wants, how is that any different than the old feudal system?
At least Hoppe is honest that he wants states to be absolute monarchies, and has the good sense to want to forcibly remove communists.
In defense of Hoppe, absolute monarchy is a lesser evil than corporate domination. The monarch in question is, at least theoretically, obliged to take care of the res publica, as opposed to serving private interests. If that does not happen, then you get revolts, because people expect some regard for the public interest. Not so with corporations.
Because capitalism and expansive private ownership is what fucking ended feudalism. Corporations are pushing for feudalism, which involved the state building guild systems which were the only legal entities allowed to engage in certain forms of commerce. Feudalism is the heaviest possible form of regulation outside Stalinist Communism.
Why don't corporations just buy up entire cities? Why did the mining towns stop?
Because it's utterly impractical and totally unaffordable without a state protecting them at every level, and subsidizing them to an extreme. Corporate Colonialism and Slavocracy is what they are doing. Colonialism and Slavery are unprofitable because they waste vast resources on shit that doesn't directly contribute to generating a good or service that someone wants. The American South was made under-developed by slavery as an institution. The British Empire was remarkably unprofitable by their own damn records. Colonialism is a shit business practice because it's inefficient.
Why did "Corporate Campuses" return? Because The government (both California and the US federal) subsidized them and convinced entire swathes of the population that private ownership of property was a vast right-wing conspiracy theory. Don't own anything, don't ask to own anything, let the insurance company pay for everything, give your money to the bank, and your pension to the investment firm, and you'll be happy. All while a corporatist legal structure attacks competition, entrapanuership, and sole proprietorship at every possible angle in an economy based on Keynesian Socialist economics and Fabian Socialist politics.
It's massively unprofitable for society as a whole and taxpayers in particular, but if you're the megacorp getting all of your costs socialised while you keep all of the profits private it's a pretty sweet gig.
Almost precisely. The corporations themselves are public entities, they do redistribute wealth to their public investors, but they keep the top cuts to themselves.