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No, under anarchy you can choose what to do with your capital goods, that's the point of freedom.

Having other people use your capital goods and sharing in the increased productivity is often simply the best option for both parties, so this will happen more often. It's just not efficient if every worker has to build his capital with hard work for many years before he can start working more efficiently with capital goods.

Imagine A is delivering packages with his bicycle (capital good) in his own village. He can do 100 packages a day. Now B gives him the option to rent his car (better capital good). Now he can do 1000 packages per day over 7 villlages.

This is obviously a win / win / win situation. A makes more money because he is much more efficient, even after paying the rent of the car, B gets a passive income on his capital because of the extra earning potential he provided and everyone in the 7 villages get their post faster and cheaper.

And somehow socialists manage to paint B as an 'evil capitalist who is exploiting the worker'.

How long would this worker have to go on his bicycle through the rain, heat and storm for a low income before he could affort to get this better capital good (car) by himself? Ten year? Twenty year?

You see how much this 'evil capitalist' (B) adds to the improvement of the worker (A) his life? Is that exploitation? It's just the most effective way for free people to cooperate to make everyone best off. That's why it will flourish under anarchism.

I think the notion that 'capitalists are evil exploiters' comes from the fact that it's very visible for the public that the workers are working their asses off, while the capitalist 'is doing nothing' and get even more money.

I think they don't realise that the capitalist isn't making the worker 20 or 30% more productive, but 10 or 100 times. The capital provider (capitalist) actually caused 90 to 99% of the productivity, that's why the market rewards him more.

Think about a taxi driver without a car, a magazine worker without a fork truck, a fishingman without a boat or even an accountant without a calculator. Because people don't realise this, it's mostly invisible for the public.

So people see the worker work hard, while the not working capitalist gets more money. A perfect issue for politicians to gaslight people that the capitalist is evil and tax the hell out of him, and socialism is born.

P.S. this all is about a free market, once the capitalist start to lobby and use the state to get unfair advantages, he's indeed evil. But this isn't capitalism, it's statism / fascism.

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