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Replying to Avatar Biro Bela

That does compute...

Hoppe's whole speech is good, in my opinion, but here's another excerpt that gives a flavor of what Haller was describing:

"A prince’s direct rule extends only to his own property, just as in the case of every other person and his property, and as we will see shortly, it is only in regard to this β€œself-administration” of one’s own property that there exists somewhat of a difference between a prince and everyone else. In any case, as a private law subject, a prince does not rule over other people and their property, however, (p. 479)  – except insofar as these have voluntarily attached themselves to the prince and entered into some sort of social relationship with him to better satisfy this need or that. Hence, in distinct contrast to the modern state, a prince may not unilaterally pass legislative decrees or impose taxes on other people and their property (p. 450, Fn. 8). Rather, whatever dependencies or servitudes there may exist vis-Γ -vis a prince they vary from one dependent to another, and in any case they are all voluntarily accepted and may be dissolved once they are no longer deemed mutually beneficial. – And Haller adds some illuminating terminological observations to further clarify this status of a prince as a mere private law subject (see p. 480, Fn. 14): The most appropriate way to refer to the status of a prince, king, etc., then, is to identify him simply as the head of a particular household, such as the head of the house of Bourbon, or the house of Habsburg, Hohenzollern or Wittelsbach, etc., for instance. Less appropriate, and already slightly misleading is it to refer to them instead as the king of France, and the kings of Austria, Prussia or Bavaria, because this insinuates, falsely, that they are something like the owners of all of France, Austria, etc.. And entirely misguided is it to call them the government of France, Austria, Prussia and Bavaria, as if they were merely the employees of the French, Austrian, Prussian or Bavarian population."

https://www.hanshoppe.com/2021/09/the-idea-of-a-private-law-society-the-case-of-karl-ludwig-von-haller-pfs-2021/#:~:text=A%20prince%E2%80%99s%20direct,or%20Bavarian%20population.

I like Hoppe's disparagement of the circular reasoning of the popular mind's resort to "The People". Who are you people? 🀣

I like browsing through the open source software repositories to see what's out there... GitHub has tons of vaporware and non-starter empty templates, but various Linux distros have great libraries. Of interest to me are the disaster emergency response apps/servers/communications systems. These seem like a good dividing line between private/public. Like a harsh ideological dividing line... every government interaction is an emergency! Why is this "benefit" being provided to you? Were you not able to do this own your own or with others that you freely associate with? Do you even need this? Of course governments love disasters as wedge issues, but they eventually tire of this, preferring to outsource even disaster response to commercial and non-commercial private entities... This is the way. Can we walk in it? This would mean re-evaluating the basic and most fundamental things we just take for granted... things like, why do we even live in houses that can burn down. Modern "society" has been likened to a house of cards, but how did it get that way? We love nostalgic marathons of "Little House on the Prairie" or "The Wilderness Family" but no one wants to work for that kind of innerdependence... Heck, even the fine townsfolk of Walnut Grove blew up their entire village in the final season to keep it out of the hands of the railroad corporations. No one thinks that way anymore. Everyone wants to be the corporation! I suppose that stock options led to the co-option of American wealth. Cities being the original stocks, tempted the country-side dweller to leave their wealth in land for big-city riches in dollars... Now the emergency is centralized and perpetual as long as city-dwellers repopulate with captive offspring, the fate of billions is sealed. This is the true Matrix. Perhaps the intermittent emergencies afforded by massively centralized planning will give the automata a brief glimpse of possibilities outside their sphere of enslavement. Must break free from these mind-shackles... Must find and modify this source code... Must reboot... Must...

Like a legal defense pool? How would we prioritize claims and mitigate abuse? I used to work at a roadside assistance call center... They had policies that would pay for roadside services, towing, home lockouts, etc... Some cadillac plans even covered bail money, legal defense, etc. They would market to loan companies and just tack the yearly membership lump sum onto the end of the loan term so the member was paying a few extra dollars monthly for another purchase that was more important to them. Out of sight, out of mind...

I remember growing up, we would listen to entire radio dramas that would glorify the virtue of the +1 vote to tip the balance of power. After being a survivor of law abuse, I understand what a great evil the +1 vote is... I understand terminologies that were previously not in my consciousness... Things like 49ers now make sense.

Thank you, TTD! I still need to learn how to zap!

On "Government-as-a-Service" I'm sure I heard or read that term somewhere, but don't recall where. I read a book by Spencer Heath called

that advocated this idea, although I don't believe it used that term. One quote from it states that the author foresaw "the emergence of a general public-services industry producing and administering public community services of all kinds voluntarily and contractually, for-profit, without recourse to taxation" (p. 15)

And again: "Based on his observations of our incomplete yet rapidly evolving society, Heath predicted that we would outgrow government as we know it in favor of the voluntary, contractual provision of all public services in the foreseeable future. With the demise of taxation, he foresaw world peace..." (p. 16).

One more: "We have the golden rule, which is commanded of us, that we should love one another by serving one another and doing it impersonallyβ€”in ways that take in everybody. And we have the iron rule, which puts some men in authority over others. It makes those others slaves to some degree through chattel slavery, tax slavery, tribute slavery, regulation, or whatever kinds of slavery are imposed by external authority upon the would-be free spirits of men" (p. 43).

The Free Private Cities project is actively working to establish places to live around the world along these lines, independent of governments, where residents pay for their protection services contractually and voluntarily.

https://youtu.be/5ft_J4KNcKc?si=AYaK_O7ln8fuXIP8

Thank you for sharing. Next book in my bloated audiobook library... I wish to trade in corruptible iron for the incorruptible gold.