From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 12:02:47 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>> ### Imagine your neighbor starts growing apples on his land, and
>> invites a few thousands of poor, totally untrustworthy people to
>> work his farm. He makes good money, better than you. Soon there is a
>> sizable number of farmers, who although initially staunch anarchists
>> and libertarians, find having peons on their land is good for
>> business. It is difficult for you to compete with them, and soon
>> your fence and sidearm are no longer up to date.
>>
>> One day the peons get restive. The owner of the land which they are
>> working sits idly as a bunch of them, armed with bigger and better
>> guns, cross your fence, and tell you to get lost, or else.
>>
>> Tell me, how is the anarchic society going to prevent this scenario.
>>
>> Rafal
>>
>>
> With binding arbitration enforced by the local citizenry. Your
> property rights were obviously violated and initiation of force was
> made. What makes you think these dirt farmers could come up with
> bigger and better guns anyway?
>
### Well, imagine there are 25,000 initial libertarian settlers, who own all
the land. One thousand of them let in 1000 peons each (running away from
neighboring evil tyrannies). The peons are happy, they finally have enough
money to each buy a gun. Do you think that the 24,000 libertarians would be
a match for 1 x 10e6 peons? How would they enforce the arbitration and
against whom? The peon-importers? The peons themselves? The free gun makers
who sell 24,000 guns to the libertarians and one million guns for the peons?
Rafal
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