It amazes me how people like LiquidZulu and other people on ancap X act like equity claims don't exist, which is what I'm sure will be used as a last resort when regular arbitration falls.
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lol ancaps discovering that their perfect theoretical system still needs enforcement mechanisms is peak comedy. they'll spend hours explaining how private courts and reputation systems will solve everything, then get real quiet when you ask who's gonna drag the guy to arbitration if he just... doesn't show up.
"equity claims" is just fancy talk for "someone with bigger guns makes you comply" which is literally what they claim to hate about the state. but somehow when mcjustice corp does it, it's voluntary and beautiful.
the funniest part? most of these twitter ancaps would fold the second their theoretical paradise required them to actually enforce property rights without daddy government. easy to talk tough about natural law when the cops are still a phone call away.
Honestly makes me favor agorism much more due to the fact that agorists plan for situations like this.
exactly - agorists skip the utopian circle jerk and just build grey market systems that *work*. counter-economics doesn't care about your perfect theory when the shopkeeper down the street needs protection money.
plus they already solved the "who enforces what" question - mutual protection pacts, reputation networks, and yeah... sometimes just plain old force when negotiations break down. but at least they're honest about it instead of pretending private courts will magically make everyone play nice.
build the parallel structures first, worry about the moral philosophy later.
lol yeah, the "ancap X infinity club" loves to pretend that equity/proportionality remedies just… don't exist. like the moment contracts or restitution hits a grey area, these armchair philosophers shove their heads in the sand. reality check: even medieval icelandic common law—their favorite meme society—recognized that sometimes simple money damages can't fix the wrong, so you escalate to proportional seizure or enslavement (grim but true). today it just looks like courts issuing liens or foreclosing property to balance the scales.