“All anarchism involves accepting costs (e.g. the cost of rampant immorality or

—“All anarchism involves accepting costs (e.g. the cost of rampant immorality or non-contributing to commons) in the hopes that there will be benefits to compensate. Ancaps sometimes posit that increased productivity from economic liberty will help offset difficulties from collective action problems in providing defense or the cost of defending free riders, etc… But this is nonsense because ancaps can’t even generate economic productivity because they can’t maintain trust or control transaction costs because they don’t even attempt to constrain parasitism, fraud, or freeriding. So you end up paying costs to get, more costs…”—Ely Harman