Anarcho-Capitalism In Practice

Okay so the first simulation attempt did not bring the desired result. We have to try again.

0:00 - 0:25 Intro
0:25 - 2:24 Icecapistan
2:24 - 3:12 Fundamental issues with AnCap-ism
3:12 - 3:50 Setting the stage
3:50 - 4:34 Channel plug
4:34 - 4:49 Simulation parameters
4:49 - 16:15 Dear God
16:15 - 17:50 Outro

[AdamSomething]

If my voice sounds a bit odd, that's because I was a bit sick during recording. Oh well.

Additionally, let me save hours of furious AnCap typing and response video editing with the following addendum:

Rational self-interest is strictly a "first person limited" thing, i.e. the person decides what is rational based on their own reasoning, perspective and life situation. What might seem a completely bonkers act to outside observers might make perfect sense to the actor. In other words, "rational self-interest" is determined internally by the actor, and not externally by a theoretical "rational observer". However, outside observers can still extrapolate what the actor will do based on their circumstance and past actions.

[calebr]

I was hoping you would get to Billy-Bob dying and his kids fight over company ownership in a civil war, like some kind of succession war. That seems interesting.

[czheracar]

1. Chaos causes insecurity
2. Band together to increase your chances
3. Grow past manageable size
4. Elect a leader to better manage
5. You have a fucking government

[giorgialadashvili]

And remember Billy Bob is relatively OK as far as self-made feudal lords go. No murder sprees, no executions, no demands to worship him as the God's appointee. Many in his place wouldn't be so nice.

[rlh]

It’s baffling to me that anyone could not see that anarcho-capitalism would end up at feudalism.

[sandran]

'This was a lot of fun and I think I'll give it another try'

Dude just wants an excuse to play more Cities: Skylines

[overanalyzingavatar]

I read the title as "Arachno-Capitalism" and thought that this was gonna be a video about if we let spiders be the government.

[MoonatikYT]

Ancaps when paying taxes: 🤬
Ancaps when paying their annual subscription fee to General Government Services Incorporated: 🤩

[TrinityShoji]

"They were so concerned about the government, they FORMED a government"

[Autonova]

Reminds me of that sketch in Family Guy: "I don't like taxes, let's abolish the government. Let's instead make an organisation which manages everything and we pay it yearly contributions to keep it running. And every so often we ask the town's population how they want things run."

[theamazingaviator]

"Anarcho Capitalism in practice"
>its just rust gameplay

[MrRizeAG]

Ancapistan has been tried, in the American "Old West", where the federal government couldn't really reach with any high degree of force. So what was it like? Unsurprisingly, corporations created their own city governments built around whatever resource extraction operation was there, enslaved the population through housing, loans, debt, and private "taxes", and created some of the worst living conditions in all of human history. Thousands upon thousands died in the mines in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no way of escaping, including child slaves. Some people literally went to WAR with the company that owned them, usually unsuccessfully. That is the promise of Ancapistan, or Companytowns as they're more commonly known.

[brianchan]

This is unrealistic.













He didn’t lower the age of consent

[haraldisdead]

"Billy Bob also had strong opinions about age of consent laws."

[TorreFernand]

this was way too idealistic. The water tower guy would've surely sent thugs to bust Billy Bob's kneecaps before he got too far if he could act with stateless impunity

[MarcelinoDeseo]

This is basically how city-states were created in ancient times.

[MrMiddleWick]

The problem is that they know it. Ancaps just imagine themselves to be the ones on top, regardless how likely it'd be.

[artstsym]

No you don't understand, everyone signed a contract saying we *weren't* doing a feudalism.

[alexanderwalker]

“And now back to Ancapistan.”
* 30s unskippable ad*

Seems about right.

[zacharychristy]

Ancaps: "No system of government factors in the human element!"

*advocates for a system that only works when everyone is a logical benevolent, omniscient robot*