My point is that if they have their money in a form that does not help create jobs and/or make the cash flow then it's much less useful than it would be in the hands of people who would make it flow.
And who exactly are the people who would make it flow?
See the problem is that there is a shortage of housing in the city. It's also difficult for properties to be developed because we have a green belt around the city (which is great - its fantastic)
You sound confused here. Is it fantastic or is it a problem?
Sounds to me like it is simply a variable that is causing more demand... Making property worth more, and therefore a better investment.
So you can understand the frustration of the people when investors from Hong Kong, Ukraine etc come and buy property and sit on it. Quite often it's only been bought to diversify their investment portfolio (happens a lot). So we're left with increasing house prices and many struggling with large mortgages or rents yet no increase in wages.
Demand is a real, natural force that has consequences, much like gravity or radiation.
You might as well be hating on the mass of the planet... What a pointless thing to be upset about, much less try to do something to stop!
Out of interest (not me having a go at you), how would this work? So you believe in anarchy with some form of law at the same time?
Of course; laws are just agreements between people. Why wouldn't an anarchy have laws?
Many statists make the mistake of thinking that anarchy can't ENFORCE laws, but there are many good solutions out there to this issue, and like any other problem, it would easily be solved by a free market and entrepreneurship.
These two short, free ebooks will answer about 90% of these "how would X work in anarchy" questions you could come up with, including this one.
http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/books/FDR_5_PDF_Practical_Anarchy_Audiobook.pdf
So some guy has a lot of money and he wants more money but he's wanting it fast. He decides to buy some assault rifles. Soon he hires a few other locals and gives them weapons. He realises that if he wants to earn money fast, why not get it from those who can't defend themselves? (inb4 tax) Then he realises that there is some hot money in dealing coke and kidnapping the kids of rich families. It isn't then long until he's good buddies with Semion Mogilevich.
Ok so the story was perhaps a bit far-fetched but how do you believe bits of this won't happen with no sort of power to stop it?
Laws, courts, and enforcers that aren't part of a centralized power regime.
We like to believe in more than economics (Americans will find this hilarious I imagine).
No, it's not hilarious; it's just ignorant. Economics is about the cause and effect relationships of everything.
We don't see government as a means for war (which unfortunately it has become) but we see it as a group of peoples joining together to help those that need it.
I have no doubt that every government that lasted more than a decade was started with the same principles in mind.
BUT POWER CORRUPTS, AND CORRUPTED PEOPLE NEVER FAIL TO SEEK OUT MORE POWER.
Only the most naive of humans don't understand this flawless concept anymore.
And we combine the common morals of the people to create law. The law should be fair, should punish those who do wrong (although not dis-proportionally) and help those who are victims. To help those at the bottom many of those who can afford it pay a contribution to give the guys a bit of a boost up.
This is so cute... It sounds like you're advocating for utopia... Didn't you guys ever hear that it only takes a single rotten apple to spoil the whole barrel?
Someone has to oversee all of this of course but we try and make sure that they represent our own opinions. We elect them.
And doom him to be corrupted.
I don't believe any of this "banning dildo's" nanny state crap, very few of us do. Unfortunately it seems that neurotic mothers like chipping in on politics.
Haha, just classic. With control over the media, those in power can do anything they like just by making everyone think that 51% of you like it too.
I also don't believe that just "spending your money" is the best thing to do to help others. Try telling a homeless guy on the street that instead of donating to the local shelter you're off to buy a £2000 Taiwanese TV, but he shouldn't worry, you're helping him really.
Whew. That's good to hear. A charity would certainly help that individual more, but IMHO, not as much as simply keeping the money and creating more jobs with it.
The difficulty comes down to who owns the land. You can't have some people paying and others not because some public services (e.g. streetlights) can't suddenly turn off when a non-taxpayer walks by.
The tragedy of the Commons is the oldest problem that statists have with anarchism and solved in many different places in both of the books above. This is a non-issue. Entrepreneurs will always provide solutions when there is a need and a free market.
So you could chuck those people out of the country right?
Lulz... No. We don't even want to be a part of any country and you think we'd organize a group in charge of throwing people out of it?!? That would be a government department.
You're really missing the big picture here. In anarchy, everyone would be FREE. The guy walking is free to be there, the guy paying the light bill is free to turn it off. That's freedom. I know it sounds odd & radical to a socialist, but hey, you should give it a try sometime. It feels good.
I would of course want to see the average person in the country get richer, not the just the top getting poorer.
Sheesh. The socialism is strong with this one. Let's try it this way:
Do you know what a slave is?
A slave is someone who does not receive any of the benefit from his or her own work.
If you force someone to work hard at something, say, picking cotton, painting houses, or sex, and they never see any money or benefit at all from that work, then you are making them into a defacto slave.
My question to you is: Are they still slaves if you "raise their pay" from 0% to 1% of the worth of the work that they are doing for you? (But still forcing them to do the job.)
Think hard about this one. If they are still a slave at 1%, which percentage are they no longer a slave at?
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