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Just an anarchist state
the term "anarchist state" is an oxymoron.
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Money has to exist, supply and demand is a natural law.
I_Guy would argue against you in this regard. i am personally on the fence here. i see where he is going, but i am not quite sure what he speaks of can be achieved. i personally approve, currently, of the vouchers used in the Spanish Revolution. basically a person would work a certain amount of hours and based on how many hours you work, you receive a voucher for those hours and so you got paid, literally, in hours of work. now though this crude form sounds ok, there are many holes. for example, if two people work moving people's belongings from house to house and one is stronger than the other, should the stronger man get paid more than the weaker one just because he's able to do the same job with less effort? not at all. for this, an additional provision should be added. someone should be paid also according to how onerous the task was for them. there are other tweaks that will need to be made, but like i said, i currently favor vouchers.
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-Should people be allowed to own property (land, items, food, etc. NOT people.)
bacon, think philosophically here. can you truly make a claim to ownership, rightfully, to anything but yourself? think about it. if everything that exists has existed in some form since long before you were born, quite possibly forever, can you truly claim ownership of it? just to make sure you get this, here's the definition of ownership:
"legal right of possession; proprietorship."
this definition shows that ownership goes beyond possession. it is the legal right of possession. do you really have a right to something that is not a part of you? can you use it? sure. but can we really justify owning it? i would contest that we can't. i would, in fact, contest that even self ownership is impossible. what we are technically doing as sentient beings is using the resources we are currently built up of to represent us. our atoms have existed in the past eternally and will continue to exist in the future eternally, long after we are no longer conscious and living. so what exactly is ownership? it gives us full rights in a legal sense to things we can never claim any sort of right to in the first place. in this sense, ownership is actually a form of slavery. sure, we are not enslaving sentient beings and so there are no psychological side effects, but ownership gives us a sense that we can do as we like with that which we own. if we recognize usership rather than ownership, we have a sense that what is being used should be handled with more care, because it is not ours to defame.
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