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No taxes. No welfare. Welcome to libertarian paradise island

by antr on 4/21/22, 3:10 PM with 20 comments

• by Comevius on 4/21/22, 3:57 PM

  It's 500 people on a tiny island demonstrating that 500 people don't need a government to function as a community. They say they can just make agreements between themselves, which is the purpose of the government, to solve that problem at scale. If one of them needs help I'm sure the rest of them would try to help, which is what wellfare is when millions of people are involved.

  I'm guessing that if I go there and start a business dumping waste on the island (which would be very profitable for me, it is increasingly costly to get rid of waste in most countries because of the stringent regulations) the people there would have to learn what taxes and regulations are for.

• by jl2718 on 4/21/22, 6:35 PM

  > anarchy doesn’t scale

  Fair argument, but mostly a strawman against peaceful progress.

  Call it “nonviolence”. Define the broad goal of civilization as eliminating coercion, and these experiments seem useful.

• by imtringued on 4/21/22, 7:46 PM

  I don't know if this works for you but if I visit the article through twitter I get past the paywall.

  https://twitter.com/FT/status/1517077628712275969

• by kalupa on 4/21/22, 3:59 PM

  I feel like I know this story plot ...

• by ehutch79 on 4/21/22, 3:45 PM

  Is it ironic that it's behind a paywall?

• by poulpy123 on 4/21/22, 3:51 PM

  Must be nice to be a parasite