Originally posted by Beniboybling😐
I worry about your health, tbh. The country itself did not exist, but people still existed there. Here is Pete Earle talking to Tom Woods about Ireland.
Originally posted by DarthSkywalker0
I worry about your health, tbh. The country itself did not exist, but people still existed there. Here is Pete Earle talking to Tom Woods about Ireland.
Lol I noticed that, I was wondering what this person thought the word "stateless" even means.
Originally posted by DarthSkywalker0I don't think they did but OK.
They congregated in Northern Ireland, I was not referencing the country.
Tom Woods is an accomplished historian.Right, and his argument seems to be that Ireland in the middle ages was some kind of libertarian example? Despite being arranged into petty kingdoms with serfs and shit? Lol. He needs a new job.
Originally posted by DarthSkywalker0
Please provide an example of this happening. Cause I do not see any.
So the reason why I argued from analogy is that practically every economy has some sort of state regulation so you can just say "regulation caused the monopoly!" I provided examples of competitive systems in which a single player gains more power than the rest put together. I see no reason why the free market is so confidently immune to that possibility.
Originally posted by Beniboybling
I don't think they did but OK.
Right, and his argument seems to be that Ireland in the middle ages was some kind of libertarian example? Despite being arranged into petty kingdoms with serfs and shit? Lol. He needs a new job.
Ireland had a complex society and competing courts without the state. Iceland was quite similar as well.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
So the reason why I argued from analogy is that practically every economy has some sort of state regulation so you can just say "regulation caused the monopoly!" I provided examples of competitive systems in which a single player gains more power than the rest put together. I see no reason why the free market is so confidently immune to that possibility.
There are no monopolies. Like there has not ever been a true monopoly in a free market society. Unless the government disallows competition or gives tax breaks, they do not happen.