deprave
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WHY, YES YOU CAN KITTY!what about the roads kitty?
How can we have Roads in a voluntary (anarchist/ libertarian society)
Well the argument for a minarchist or moderate libertarian society is relatively simple. Moderate Libertarians, Minarchist, or Teabaggers (as some like to call them) are not anarchist, they believe in minimal government so often this would include a government that would both build and repair roads. As for the real anarchist and anarchist libertarians the idea of how we would have roads is mere speculation but there is many possible ways it could work. I will describe some examples in this post.
So without further ado lets speculate how roads might work in a voluntary society:
Laying road is not the most complicated or expensive thing in the world especially when not done by the government in market that is tainted by government which sets artificially changes value it can never know the value so contractors can charge them whatever they want, inefficiency at its finest. The thing that catches people up is how to build roads within already existent neighborhood but the reality is, that is simply not how it works. Roads are in fact built before the communities are filled with people. A builder would have a much tougher time trying the sell his house if there is no road proving access to and from the home. A store would have a much tougher time trying to get any customers if they did not build any roads going to and from the surrounding neighborhoods.
In the circumstance that a road builder is wanting to build a road on already acquired land, he can use options and nondisclosure contracts in order to avoid any holdout problem. That is to say he can purchase the option to buy a spot of land from a series of landowners while also agreeing to a nondisclosure contract so that the owner of the last spot of land the road builder needs is not aware that they are the last person, and thus will not be tempted to charge a ridiculous sum of money for their land.And if there is someone who has some kind of sentimental value to their property and refuses to sell it for any price, then the road builder can buy options contracts for another route, or he can simply tunnel underneath them.
Neighborhood roads would likely be funded by Homeowner’s Associations and car insurance companies wanting to minimize their payouts for vehicle repair such as tires. Roads going to and from businesses would likely be funded by the businesses themselves wanting more customers. These residential and business roads could also be funded through voluntary donations. Highways could likely be funded by charging a monthly bill based on usage or perhaps this voluntary society would rely much more heavily on public transportation rather than private. It’s impossible to know these things in advance but the truth is that roads aren't just going to disappears, we won't just decide to no longer have roads, the demand will still be there. While eminent domain laws do seem tempting for the purpose of building roads, they are not a necessity, and the increased efficiency of these voluntary organizations would more than make up for the higher cost of buying the land voluntarily rather than corrosively, as well as avoid all of the other inherent problems that come along with using coercion. Finally I would like to add that we already have the roads and we also have the private companies with the means to repair them.
So How do you think Roads would work without Government?
