brockm on Nostr: The only argument that anarcho-capitalists have against this (and by the way, nobody ...

The only argument that anarcho-capitalists have against this (and by the way, nobody thought more about this than American philosopher and economist Henry George), is that such outcomes are "unlikely". That somehow market forces will equilibrate into smaller communities that will retain the "right-of-exit" between them. That the pathological case is not worth thinking about because it's "extreme and absurd". This is literally all AnCaps ever say in response to the pathological case being laid out -- just as they lost their minds about how absurd my "Bob's Island" thought-experiment is.

They don't have any real well-thought out explanations as to why it's absurd, why it's unlikely, why the pathological case is irrelevant. They just say it's stupid, won't happen, and there's no point thinking about unlikely outcomes. In other words, they wave their hands around a little bit, proclaim the pathological case stupid (because reasons) and move on.