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”
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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"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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There’s a lot about the problem of ATC that makes it difficult to “libertarianize” now. There’s nothing about it that makes government control a superior approach per se.
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