The state’s “public goods” are myths. Roads, security, and courts functioned better pre-monopolization, delivered efficiently through voluntary markets.
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and courts pre-monopolization, are “public better markets. myths. through Roads, voluntary state’s delivered security, efficiently goods” The functioned
That and “public” access is a myth too. So many “public” places were shut down during the COVID scam. Showed that they are actually private places operating under the guise of being public.
i tried to fight this shit in court once... dug up some choice old grandfathered laws that had been ignored mostly subsequently by the british parliament and then the queensland parliament, relating to crown granted monopolies
i was subjected to 45 minutes of irrelevant case law citations and then guilty anyway
but it was kinda cool to make this dude sweat because he obviously didn't have great familiarity with the precedence of british law to australian (i read the whole constitution through to figure this out, but i don't expect a local magistrate would have spent much time so far outside his juris my diction.
The biggest lie they tell kids. So much so, when told it can be done privately, the invariable refrain "Who will build the roads?" is spoken without any formal script or instruction. The state buries this insecurity in the populace so deep that they independently parrot the same shallow wimper.
I really want to understand how building roads would be more effective
For a simple answer: ask chatgpt to answer from an Austrian economics POV. For a more profound understanding I would recommend "Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security" from Hans Hoppe.
This topic seems woefully undeveloped in recent times. This essay by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, now president of the Mises Institute, seems to be one of the most recent?
https://mises.org/review-austrian-economics/myth-natural-monopoly
There is a book cited, however it is near impossible to find anymore, it's titled "Direct Electric Utility Competition: The Natural Monopoly Myth" by Walter J. Primeaux, Jr. (1986).
Any others?
Do you have a thoughtful answer for someone who is asking: a libertarian perspective is individualistic, and might be nice for the rich, but detrimental to the poor? How can a free society guarantee, that every child gets education and learns how to read?
If it's an actual problem, free people will solve it.