you're describing war and violent conflict, not market-based voluntary exchange. yes, there will always be belligerent actors who choose violence, and that's what potent defense of private property is for.

I believe the strategy of violence will tend to lose / lead to financial and resource ruin on the part of the initiator of violence, if he is surrounded by the right kind of neighbors

Have you thought about how many pages of regulations are written and re-written to do this? The number of Federal agencies tasked with investigating and managing this? The court time, at all levels?

Rich people can only do this if taxpayers are footing the gargantuan bill, and public security forces are standing guard.

Without a nation-state to subsidise protecting the financial interests of the shareholders against the Board, the Boards' against the managers, and the managers' against the workers, there will be few and tiny corporations.

not as long as they don't claim a violence monopoly over land that they don't legitimately own and improve. which is much tougher when you have neighbors (corporate or persons) who don't appreciate you "claiming" their land by force.

without such a monopoly, these corporations don't have the same power to tax involuntarily, so poorer services would fail, unlike States.

Even if everyone sold all their property to **one** single owner, and agreed to a "volubtary tax"... There is a point of maximized revenue (the Laffer point) that they wouldn't go beyond, as a financially good policy. The State doesn't have pecuniary motives, so it doesn't follow sensible rules like this.

what do you think?

evict the idea of "public property" from your mind and the answers present themselves. when all property is private, owners and businesses "build the infrastructure" that they and their collaborators desire.

if the "welfare" is funded via voluntary transactions, sure

One of the biggest problems with victim culture is it treats weakness as a viable excuse for behaving without honor.

The tragedy is not that we all must live our lives built on grace, but that those who need grace the most scorn it,

Living an inverted world where they self righteously scoff at everything that is right side up.

And mock all who don't fawn over their cowardice,

Spewing ever increasing vitriol against any reality that would make them encounter the truth,

Treating any authority, any strength, any intelligence, any beauty, any wisdom that would invade their spell as an evil that must be destroyed.

Where the ultimate crime simply becomes truth itself.

And why?

Because they fear. They fear what the truth of them is,

And if they can't force you to love them because they are a failure, then why would you love them at all?

Thus,

Missing the whole point of love.

...

Weakness does release us from virtue,

Fear does not free us from love.

Parasitism is a common human strategy that thrives in redistributive societies, we must focus on creating a culture of liberty to counter it.

maybe learn

I don’t get what it is. I just saw a bunch of images going by. Please explain, thank you.

This is wild lol

The humble beginnings of my at-home workspace... I have a vintage card catalog to slip under the lower shelf for art supply storage. My floor desk isn't finished but I have all the pieces, so that's exciting. Its one step beyond a board atop piles of books now. It will have a shelf for a monitor and a nice finish. I did a crappy job on painting the wall, but it's paneling over drywall (wtf?). I'm hoping to tear it out in a few years. It's taken months to make this project a priority but it's been a constant itch in mind.

On a scale of stupid to fully missing a brain, how stupid is it to live next to your in-laws?

I dun have to. Again there is quite the freedom in saying "Fuck it, none of this matters!" and still seeking one's own happiness and rational self interest.

Camus is also quoted as saying "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion”.

Remember the wise words of Carl Brutananadilewski: