Web comic: anarcho-capitalist after the state falls!
Made by mdh. Feel free to reproduce as you wish.
Because at the end of the day, there are way more poor people who’ve been oppressed by capitalism for way too long than there are anarcho-capitalists. Is your propertarian ideology really worth being put up against a wall for?
3:47 pm
Ha!
3:53 pm
This is funny & true. When the state falls, working poor people aren’t going to sit in their apartments thinking, “Gee, better head off to work & obey my boss so I can pay the rent!”
In the absence of a coercive system compelling people to care about ‘property’, no one will give a shit; and anyone attempting to gather a private security team of ‘property rights’ thugs is likely to be shot. Of course, that’s assuming that they could even attempt such a thing – anti-cop sentiment is ALREADY high in the general public; I can’t imagine why anyone would want to be some capitalist’s ‘private cop’ after the state falls, just as I can’t imagine why people would want to stand in line for hours at the DMV.
6:38 pm
Anyone attempting to gather a team of “property rights” thugs is just trying to become a new state anyways (and, of course, their thugs the new police).
12:41 am
I’m all for poking fun at people, but don’t you think your last comment, about being shot (or otherwise being subject to wall-type justice), is a bit stupid? That logic, “Is your -X- ideology really worth being put up against a wall for?” can be applied to any ideology that’s unpopular under the circumstances, especially revolutionary ones in an authoritarian state.
Not to mention condescending, but I digress. Not here to convince people.
2:47 am
Sure. I think my anti-propertarian ideology is worth dying for.
7:52 pm
Property rights are derivative of one’s ownership over himself. Because I own myself, I own the fruit of my labor. To be anti-property is to deny one’s self, as if to say “I am not an identity and I have no right to the possession and control of my mind and body.” If you do not own yourself, necessarily you cannot be an ethical being. The State is not a self owning individual; as an unethical non-being it has no legitimate claim to anything.
The straw-monopoly-man being confounded, and perhaps lynched, by your mob is a bold and blatant fallacy. First, monopolies are creatures of the State. But also because you assume that privet enterprise is as perverse as the state. Privet enterprise is free trade, this includes all free associations- meaning a co-op is necessarily privet enterprise. If you want to live on a commune, no anarcho-capitalist will stand in your way. But when socialists demonstrate in support of confiscating the means of production, that is necessarily a march for tyranny.
8:09 pm
So if I own myself because I own the fruit of my labor, why would one believe the capitalist has a claim to the fruit of the labor of the worker?
8:14 pm
The only claim they may have is to the equipment provided, which, in any rational world is rented to those using it. You don’t rent or lend a tool to someone and then claim what they made to be yours… you may charge them a minor fee though.
8:52 pm
The business owner has no claim. The laborer owns himself in same way the business owner owns himself. The worker, as owner of his labor has the right to contract (or rent) it out. A business owner who does not receive the benefit of government intervention may lose everything to bad investments or poor assessments. A laborer gets paid on payday or he does not come back — not to work, anyway. It is implied from the start as part of the exchange. The laborer is promised in a contract that he will be paid for his work. The business owner fronts the capitol and, with it, the risk of lost investments and opportunity costs. The laborer trades time and effort for money.
12:12 pm
Because you can exchange property, including your labor, for something else. In this case, money, but it could be anything else, including the other person’s labor. The farmer could tend to the vegetables on the hunter’s land, and the hunter, in exchange, could hunt the deer for the farmer on the farmer’s land.
In a job, you’re simply exchanging your time and labor for the money of the capitalist. Your labor has a market value, based on many things – your skillset, your work ethic, your education, etc – and luckily, you have control over how much value your labor has. There are many areas where workers have enjoyed firms competing for their labor, which is where things like health insurance and cost-of-living raises originated.
11:13 am
Capitalism commonly defined is not the same as it is technically defined. So why bother argue with anarcho-capitalists if you dont get this?
7:14 pm
It’s funny because it’s true… or is that it’s sad because it’s true…. either way.