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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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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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.
"Laissez-faire was planned, planning was not" -- Polyani.
ie, whether you want it or not, non-minimum government evolves alongside new tech. You need structured violence to create room for laissez faire, so Catch 22: you'd need a government to keep government out of markets
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