Government Incentivizes Evil and Barbarism; It Must be Abolished

in #anarchy6 years ago

There is a common argument that government's aren't violent, but rather humans are violent. Therefore, abolishing government won't do anything to solve humanity's problems. Basically governments are made up of imperfect beings so all institutions or organizations will be imperfect. The argument assumes any human organization will fall into corruption and predatory behavior, thus ridding ourselves of government is naive and shortsighted.

This is true as far as humans are fallible and prone to corruption. However, the missing factor is that governments actually incentivize evil and violent behavior. This means the skewed economics of government aren't taken into consideration. Governments are magnets for sociopaths. Government is the institutional religion that enthrones brutishness and barbarism. Government functions by allowing the few to control the many. It is the idea that a couple of special men have the divine right to use aggression against other men. In this regard, government actually rewards corruption, violence, and brutality.

If we have the understanding that men are prone to become corrupt and aggressive, then we certainly do not want to enshrine those characteristics in an institution. If we do, we are essentially asking for a violent and chaotic society. In order to escape this situation, governments must be totally abolished and the incentive structures in society must be aligned with peace, goodwill, and prosperity. This means we cannot reward people for doing bad things.

These aligned incentives are the incentives embedded in the business or market economy. If a business or institution gets punished financially for harming others, then it will be unlikely to continually engage in those behaviors. For instance, if a company decided that it was good to coerce other men with laws or rules, then it is unlikely people would continue to conduct business with those organizations. Why would they? Why would people contribute to their own harm by procuring services from that broken enterprise?

The reason why governments get away with the nastiest behavior, including murdering their own people via democide, is because they expropriate money from the population via taxes. They extort people. This means they are making money regardless if they do an awful job. This means they do not have to care about the people or "customer" so to speak. They can behave how they see fit, and can do the worst possible job. These are what's called broken incentives. If we repair these broken incentives by making sure organizations pay for malevolent or inefficient behavior, then we will begin creating a truly peaceful and decent society. Until then, we will live under wanton authoritarian barbarism. And dare we called this society a "civilized" one? Is it civilized to institutionalize violence?

These kind of questions answer themselves.

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I'm myself an Anarcho-capitalist, but I have one doubt:

What if at least one of private defence agencies (for example - agency A) - which are an essential element of the Anarcho-capitalist concept - after aquiring right amount customers - by strictly voluntary/free market actions (by serving better services for lower cost) - would:

  • order its customers to pay more - under serious phisical penalty;
  • forbid them to use the help of other agencies - under serious phisical penalty;

Those actions will probably result in:

  • the deterrence of other customers
  • resistance from (enslaved) already "owned" customers
  • hostility from other security agencies - which will not normally be able to compete for (enslaved) clients of the "A" agency.

But what if ... the "A" agency will be able to overcome all of the above obstacles?

You can't order customers to pay more if there is a contract in place. If you want to charge more for a service that you're providing and the customer doesn't want to oblige, then the customer has the option to exit the contract. It all comes down to the terms of the contract the customer has entered into.

I like your article and understand your points. I especially like how you remove the distinction between government and business because at the end, you stopped using the word "government" and used the word "organization". The problems you cite are found both in business and in government. And lately, it's been hard to tell the difference.

But one thing I've noticed is that anarchists haven't figured out that "evil" is a skill. The awful behaviors you talk about with respect to how government behaves, all of those are skills and they are taught. When are they taught? When we are very young.

In support of the above, I offer "Plan B for humanity":

https://steemit.com/humanity/@digitalfirehose/plan-b-for-humanity

It's an ancient article, but it does raise the point that if we're going to abolish government and replace it all with voluntary institutions and associations, then we need to teach the skills of goodwill among men and women. I am an anarchist, but I see that from a practical perspective, we need to raise a generation of kids who do not believe in the use of force to bring order to society. That skill set must be taught from day one, for everyone , to enable the dream of anarchism.

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When you find a cancer in an organization, you must cut it out before it can spread

Most countries, including mine are facing these problems. The government, to some extent seems to care less about the plight of the masses. Insurgency has consumed thousand of human lives here everyday. There are no appropiate measures where the masses can give their opinions concerning governmental affairs ...We hope it gets better soon..

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