It’s when you consider problems like air traffic control (ATC) on a busy continent that practical problems with libertarianism become apparent. It’s a tightly synchronized federated architecture (ie a network of locally centralized entities) that’s hard to “libertarianize”
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The tech wasn’t there to do it fully distributed back then. This was the only game in town no matter who did it.
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I agree with you that you can't just pull the government rug out from under ATC now and let it fail. But modern flight would have happened; the market would have produced air traffic control. Maybe a natural monopoly, maybe not, but not subject to gov't shutdown nonsense.
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I don't think humans produce asymmetrical amounts of business, politics, and culture. It would take coercive power for a major technology to develop for long with a purely market based pattern. So to that extent, it's a spherical cow thought experiment.
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