Why do you think the Baron has to keep "the majority of his households happy"? Do you imagine this is an elected office? He has to keep *all* his households compliant - that's it.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @0x49fa98
Compliant, sure, use whatever term that means "preventing revolt" you wish.
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The point is then unless you allow households to chose their own lords, the democratic tendency cannot be removed, since there is no escape for the minority. Only anarchy can protect political minorities by allowing them to chose their own lords.
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Anarcho-capitalism is what we have right now only the single protective agency decided that taking over all territory and ruling unopposed is more profitable for them - then it broke down into being controlled by its employees.
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then its no longer anarcho capitalism lol I can just as easily state we are living in "failed feudalism" if we want to pretend that words don't have meanings
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"Feudalism" describes a system of governance. Ancap is a hopeful description of what a ruler will do if interested in profit (but of course, power is above profit in the hierarchy of concerns). I'm a monarchist - I can say "we don't have a King and we'd be better off with one".
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"Ancap is a hopeful description of what a ruler will do if interested in profit" IDK what definition you're referencing here, but this is absolutely NOT what that means. Anarchy (no rulers) and capitalism (free markets) have very specific definitions.
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Ok, so you have ancapistan where there are protective agencies that compete and control military force. Now one decides that he'd rather be warlord of the place for various reasons. He or a competitor will succeed eventually at this ambition. Nothing keeps ancap ancap.
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Winner-take-all is not how markets work IRL. Even the largest companies rarely have more than 50% market share unless they've been granted monopoly power in a given area. Any agency that tried to become a government would be kept in check by other agencies and their customers.
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Power is better when there aren't rivals for it so rivals will fight and reach accommodations - leader A becomes a lieutenant for leader B. Firms are kept in line by a market b/c they operate in the kiddie pool of what the state permits - no competition via violence.
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You absolutely will see consolidation if you remove that restriction. "Oh, then a competitor will dethrone the monopoly" - not if the monopoly can launch a nighttime raid on the rising competitor's CEO's house.
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