From 2c42d93c94ea88adac03590953b4e047b25499b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martti Malmi Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:37:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] . --- _posts/2017-03-30-law-is-better-without-monopoly.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2017-03-30-law-is-better-without-monopoly.md b/_posts/2017-03-30-law-is-better-without-monopoly.md index 7f489a6..6da8ef9 100644 --- a/_posts/2017-03-30-law-is-better-without-monopoly.md +++ b/_posts/2017-03-30-law-is-better-without-monopoly.md @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ If you were unhappy with your “government”, you could change it at will, jus Law and protection providers would have the natural incentive to focus on proactive crime prevention rather than just dealing with the damage. They would likely want to help you with security planning and offer discounts for doing it. Customer experience would be massively better than what we have now — providers would actually have to care about keeping their customers. -What if there's a dispute between providers? Well, governments these days disagree all the time and international justice is a mess. Still, they don't go to war over small things — even if they could do so with taxpayers' money. In case of voluntaristic providers that people are free to leave without moving to another country, there is even less incentive to go to war or leave "international" disputes unresolved. +**What if there's a dispute between providers?** Well, governments these days disagree all the time and international justice is a mess. Still, they don't go to war over small things — even if they could do so with taxpayers' money. -Members will go elsewhere if the price gets too high or the service too bad. Providers must co-operate and follow the common law, or else they will face external pressure and increased costs. +In case of voluntaristic providers that people are free to leave without moving to another country, there is even less incentive to go to war or leave "international" disputes unresolved. Members will go elsewhere if the price gets too high or the service too bad. Providers must co-operate and follow the common law, or else they will face external pressure and increased costs. **How do we get there?** Through technological advancements that make old-style governments obsolete. We will have decentralized and voluntary alternatives that outcompete stagnant government services. When we have better alternatives for education, healthcare, social security, money, [reputation systems](https://siriusbusiness.fi/learning-to-trust-strangers), dispute resolution, personal registry, ownership registry and personal safety, governments lose their justification and legitimacy.