User talk:Vision Thing/Anarcho-capitalism
Anarcho-Capitalism is an oxymoron, because Property is theft!... He who does not work, neither shall he eat - If a private entity is able to control both the means of production, and things such as housing, he is essentially forcing the lower class into slavery - How is this freedom? It's the antithesis. Anarcho-Socialism advocates the control of the means of production by the workers themselves, what could be more "free" than that?
It's funny, all the Rothbard quoting on this page, and you conveniently forget the quote where he repudiated the label of anarcho-capitalism, coming to the conclusion that capitalism and anarchism are incompatible. Additionally, the notes on Carson are bullshit, and individualist anarchism, except for a trend that's strictly american and less than 60 years old, has always been socialist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.54.35 (talk) 18:58, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
The statement that "Property is theft" is self refuting. Me owning a computer does not mean that I stole that computer from someone else-although I would concede that it seems like I stole another person's labor to purchase the computer, but since the laborer received reciprocated compensation for his time and skill, I really didn't steal his labor. The employer gave him something valuable in return, whether it be a wage. "He who does not work, neither shall he eat", sounds more like a moral justification for capitalism to me. If you don't work and stimulate the economy through labor, you don't deserve government assistance through taxation, which, in a fundamental way, is theft. So capitalism is the antithesis of theft.
"If a private entity is able to control both the means of production, and things such as housing, he is essentially forcing the lower class into slavery - How is this freedom?" No one is forcing you to involuntarily sacrifice your labor to receive money from an employer. In an anarcho-capitalist society, there is a moral emphasis on voluntary contracts, and since employment and wage labor is a consensual contract that no one is forcing you to engage in, it's not slavery. You can make money by other means, such as prostitution, selling novels or drugs (in an anarcho-capitalist society, drugs would be legal), mowing lawns, or you can start your own business with no governmental regulation. That's not slavery, that's freedom. And since there is no government to regulate your business, enforce patent laws, and enforce corporate subsidies, there is more competition, which would lower prices, and it would be easier to start a business.Nashhinton (talk) 03:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)