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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Replying to @vgr
Do you think private enterprise is incapable of producing a tightly synchronized federated architecture? They if govt hadn’t taken over ATC that modern flight would not have happened?
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Really hard to tell but it probably could have if it had gone that way early enough. Probably would have produced something like the US railroad system prior to integration, arms race of incompatible standards etc. But it would be a crony industry today.
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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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