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from what I read, most free market apologists say that market regulation is bad. but what if a private enterprise did it? for example, a private military or something like that.

>> No.13064234

>>13064220
Still bad unless you can opt out. Self-regulatory agencies are ok

>> No.13064236
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>>13064220
>free market apologist

Yeah I feel the need to apologize for lifting 3 billion people out of poverty.

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>>13064236
this lmao

>> No.13064294

>>13064260
I head Chairman Xi is working on undoing a lot of that and bringing the economy back under state control, so it'll be a good opportunity to blame the resulting crash on capitalist policies and ensure that China returns to being a dirt poor shithole in perpetuity

>> No.13064351

>>13064236
yeah sorry I picked the wrong word. should've said "advocates". my bad.

>> No.13064400

>>13064234
but why? let's say a market serves against interests of some group. why shouldn't it pay a military to shut it down? e.g. some drug traffickers or whatever. if they think it's worth money, and it profits them indeed, then why not.

>> No.13064427

>>13064220
a private military making a territorial claim would just be a government. that's what a government is, the entity in a geographical area who holds a monopoly on force. We already have mercenary companies like whatever blackwater is called now. Those are different because they don't fit the criteria of what you're implying I dont think

>> No.13064450

>>13064400
I assumed by "free market apologists" you meant libertarian types, who have a rule against using force to coerce people to do things or not do things. There's always going to be someone out there who can profit somehow by having a market shut down, so if you can just pay to have that done the markets aren't going to work

>> No.13064553

>>13064450
but I think what gets overlooked is, regulations nowadays are completely decided by the government. it can give to small groups amount of power they don't really deserve.
but what if regulating a market was a freely traded service? then people would actually "vote with their money" for it. this would prevent a small unimportant group from lobbying for regulating a whole market for the detriment of a bigger, more important group. and if someone wanted to shut down a market, someone could make a counter-offer to lift the regulation.
so what if, in the end, regulating certain markets would actually benefit society? like it already does, with, say, drugs.

>> No.13064595

>>13064553
I dunno, that's basically the ancap idea. I'm a libertarian and haven't thought about ancap very much because it seems an awful lot like the "have hammer everything is nails" phenomenon applied to markets