Debate: Free-Market Police: Better or Worse?
Side: Much, much worse...

Yes, yes, the wealthy will always have an advantage over the poor in that they have access to a greater disposable income. That's not the problem and that's not what I'm talking about.It exists regardless of state, or economic system. It is the problem. For example:The problem isn't wealthy persons being wealthy, the problem wealthy persons lobbying the state to cripple competition.In an anarchy this becomes:The problem isn't wealthy persons being wealthy, the problem wealthy persons paying our chieftains to cripple competition.Or:The problem isn't wealthy persons being wealthy, the problem wealthy persons paying our elders to cripple competition.How? Those with the political influence (chieftains, elders) may change clan edicts or create new ones that benefit the wealthy.This is yet another argument you've pulled right out of your ass. There is no law of nature causing to monopolies to happen! XDMonopolies happen because the larger you become, the more efficient you become at making a product, and the more able you become at distributing it.If you were to say it is the law of nature for monopolies to NOT happen, that would be closer to the truth, but to say nature dictates that monopolies would happen is stupid. As though physics points to market monopolies. XDIt is a mathematical problem. The larger you are, the cheaper input goods become (because you may provide your own inputs). The cheaper it is to produce goods (because mass production streamlines the process further and further). The easier it is to distribute those goods (because you become more and more ubiquitous in sell points).This is called economy of scale. The bigger you are, the larger your natural advantage in competing with a typical business.Yeah, I know. I'm an idiot because I've given up guessing what exactly you're trying to argue. =/It doesn't take guessing. If you're not as quick-thinking as me, I could simply treat you as a child, if that is your wish.States have power because persons project power onto them. States without public support collapse hard and fast.The state emerges from psychology, not from some economic superiority. When dealing with economics you have to be able to differentiate between the two. States also have an advantage because they orchestrate large groups to work together.Mises is an authority now? Do you think before you type? You're basically admitting that your previous comment was an ad-hominem attack.Mises is a think-tank which advocates something which is historically unwise."The only way to stop monopolies is to allow one firm a coercive monopoly on all of societies most vital services hurr-durr!""You can get market advantages by lobbying persons with no market influence derp-de-derp!"Or my personal favourite..."You shouldn't compare Somalia to the countries most like it to see if it improved after that fall of the state. You should compare it to much more successful, yet much less relevant states! Hurp-a-Durp!!!"I never said those.You're just being willfully ignorant at this point. It was more that a thousand years and all the violence and death in that time was nothing compared to the rest of Europe. This "in-fighting" argument of your is a joke. "in-fighting" is something that happened everywhere. The difference being states had massive wars on top of internal discrepancies I would prefer to live in an area with a few punk-kid gangs than a massive monarchical gang. Do I really need to point out why this isn't a rebuttal? Anarchies always infight. States achieve stability. Besides that comparing an anarchy to a medieval theocracy doesn't make the anarchy somehow good.Oh, so now the argument is "evolved out of hunter-gatherer" rather than "we've evolved past violence", eh? Nice little switch-a-roo there.I never said we evolved past violence. I said we evolved out of a violent lifestyle. Big difference.It's also not profitable to nuke an area you want to control, which makes conquest of a stateless society even less likely.Also, succeeded in capturing Iraq? What qualifies as capturing? Getting power over it? Given the insurgents you just spoke of, that hasn't happened. Defeating the state army? That happened years ago and it didn't matter, because of the insurgents. Putting it in a god damn poke-ball? That looks to be the most likely right now. XDI was comparing relative military and technological strength. In other words a few suicide bombs is no threat to a military with a budget which dwarfs the spending of the next most wealthy nations combined.We captured their governments, and established our own. Insurgents are an annoyance, a threat if there becomes a power vacuum or complete unrest.Is a poke-ball a torture device?And the desire that sparked these advancements wasn't a state invention. It came bottom-up from the public. And when the state exploded in power, these advancements dwindled to nearly nothing. In an anarchy the people are too busy fighting each other and rival factions, hunting and gathering, to worry about science. Those states slowly brought enough stability that people could investigate (whereas before they were toiling in fields and slaves).Soooooo, SOMETHING around the time of the Somali state's collapse caused massive growth in Somalia. Most persons, both statist and not, looked at this and hypothesized that the reason for this had to do with the fall of the state and when you do a little digging into the event, it turns out to be true.Again, did I need to lead your hand? Correlation is not causation means that despite Somalia's correlation that the state's absence seemed to lead to improved economic growth, it does not lead to the conclusion that removing states improves economic growth. There is insufficient evidence to draw this conclusion.The quickest areas to absorb the collapse where areas that functioned outside of the assumption of a state. Obviously the services that the state monopolized where harder to build up since they did function under the assumption of a state.It's hard to build a monopoly when guns are shooting your workers and grenades are exploding your factories...