First recognize that _all_ property is private property. That's important context.

If you step on my property, I'll require you to have insurance.

If you murder someone, that person will (likely) have insurance that pays their estate in the event of their murder. Once insurance has paid the claim, they will attempt to collect funds from you. Your insurance will cover you for that. If there are disputes along the way here, private enforcement agencies will deal with that on their employers' behalf. The easiest, cheapest, least-violent (unnecessary violence is expensive, as we're seeing) way to handle those disputes will probably be through arbitration, which the enforcement agencies will mostly align on in order to economize and work efficiently. No where has coercion been introduced.

If you _don't_ have proper insurance, you are unlikely to be allowed on most private property. So to the extent that you'd like to operate normally in society, you'll carry the level of insurance that allows you to do so.

If you're a truly antisocial, masochistic criminal who opts to carry no insurance and attempts to go on a crime spree, the first bit of private property you step on will find you in violation of their "entry requirements" and will use force to repel you, and nobody in the voluntary society will see that as unjustified, as you willfully violated a contract that warned against your subsequent behavior.

Given that nearly every (voluntary) contract at any level will have large penalties for murder, it would essentially be taken as a universal that "murder is 'illegal' ". That's a spontaneous, bottom-up "rule" that doesn't require a State to prescribe. Freely-associating individuals can arrive at that.

I didn’t see what JG specifically said, but what you outlined here does not sound coherent (or feasible) to anyone (like me) that spent decades working in the US bond markets.

If the FED introduced a form of YCC (yield curve control) that forced the entire curve to be flat at 2 percent, the only way to achieve this would be to print the 10s of trillions necessary to, effectively, buy up all/most of the available supply. Past AND future.

This would be very very BAD for the US dollar (read: hyperinflation territory) and very very GOOD for ANY hard asset. Especially Bitcoin and Gold.

There is exactly ZERO chance anything like this will be attempted NEAR term. However, some (creeping) version of this will become absolutely inevitable LONG term.

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Well first tell me what you mean by "enforces"? This may seem like a tangent, but it's not.

Enforces what, and enforces how?

> "preemptive centralised rules against violence"

The straw man part is the implication that "rules" mean "the thing doesn't happen". If course the thing still happens. If all we needed were rules and laws, democratic societies would need law _enforcement_ or militaries.

In a free society you would still have the preemptive rules against violence. When you step on my property, you are either trespassing or you are acting upon an open invitation from me that includes some contractual stipulations that you are agreeing to by entering.

You started this convo saying you'd prefer barbarians raiding ancient rome to the roman state. So not a straw man- literal reality for hundreds of years. And yes, one solution is to have nothing to be stolen. Have fun with that freedom. Maybe you can find a cave to live in no one wants to take from you. Not sure a drone swarm will be viable in a world where there are no preemptive centralised rules against violence. A helmet might work, but the thugs might have bats?

You can't defend against a perfectly-executed sneak attack. In any societal format.

"How to magically prevent all violence?" is not a problem to be solved. It's a straw man.

But also: I dunno, a personal drone swarm? Helmet? Don't carry your stuff around, or if you do, make sure it's all encrypted?

The short answer: Norms. And when the norms are violated: Force. Defensive force.

Nothing too groundbreaking.

I know where I stand on that question, now that we have the freedom technology, monetary technology and the generations of scholarship on voluntaryism and free market societies. Maybe in ancient Rome the answer was less clear, given the state of development at the time on those two fronts.

"a lot of wise words and then the destruction of the State".

I fail to see the problem here... 😏

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