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RE: Capitalism Isn't Corporatism
Anarchism combined with property rights, exploitation of workers, and the accumulation of capital can never work. Only a post scarcity soicety can be an anarchist society, otherwise the insane inequality and suffering will continue, even without the state. Maybe Google and Facebook would start world war 3.
Property rights are essential, starting with yourself as the main property.
Exploitation of workers is impossible in a free society. If you think you are being exploited you simply stop working there.
I doubt it. There is no such thing as post-scarcity society (i know i know zeitgeist and all). Even if humans had everything they have today, new needs will be created. It wouldn't have to be material but certainly something else would have spawned as a need. In much the same way, nobody in 1850 thought that social media connection would actually be a need.
Inequality is something that will always exist because everyone is different. If everyone was equal and had equal value then society would collapse. You wouldn't have any motive to do anything.
Maybe pigs will fly one day
People are not property. If you are poor, you might have to work in explotative conditions.
People are not free agents,this is free market propaganda. The world has resources, and technology,and we have people who can do work. This generates wealth. Just because you own a company does not mean that you have the moral right to the profit. In a free society,such exploitation would be stopped.
You are right that certain things will always remain scarce,even in a post-scarcity society with nano-replication technology. And it is possible that we will see a limited kind of capitalism,where all basic needs are covered,and many that we now consider luxuries, and we trade attention and information.
However, freely sharing attention and information is much to be preferred.
Placing things in a value system and making profits from it devalues it.
What would you rather want,get attention because someone likes you or finds you interesting, or buy the attention?
You are misconstruing my concept of inequality. I am talking about economic inequality, and social inequality , in other words, the absence of oppression, not that everyone needs exactly the same amount of resources at all times.
Since we are heading for post-scarcity, everyone can live in luxury.
My comment about google and facebook was a sarcastic joke, but I do believe that in a anarcho-capitalist world,we might see companies in armed conflict,and probably executions of workers that protest or tries to forcibly take over the means of production.
Believing anything else is hopelessly naive.