Companies A - F, the six largest companies, form a coalition because they realize if they take out the competition, they will be able to corner the market and generate more revenue for themselves. first they use their capital reserves to undercut the competition, selling at a loss to drive most of the others to bankruptcy in a battle of attrition. once the competition is sufficiently degraded any stragglers can be taken out with military force if necessary.

Companies A, B and C the three largest companies, form a coalition because they realize if they take out the competition, they will be able to corner the market and generate more revenue for themselves. first they use their capital reserves to undercut the competition, selling at a loss to drive most of the others to bankruptcy in a battle of attrition. once the competition is sufficiently degraded any stragglers can be taken out with military force if necessary.

Companies A and B the two largest companies, form a coalition because they realize if they take out the company C, they will be able to corner the market and generate more revenue for themselves. first they use their capital reserves to undercut the company C, selling at a loss to drain company C's capital in a battle of attrition. once company C is sufficiently degraded they can be taken out with military force if necessary.

Company A, the largest of two companies, realizes if they take out company B, they will be able to corner the market and generate more revenue for themselves. first they use their capital reserves to undercut the company B, selling at a loss to drain company B's capital in a battle of attrition. once company B is sufficiently degraded they can be taken out with military force if necessary.

Company A is now the de facto government

Love to casually drop the phrase, "thousands of other security companies" in my explanation of why there won't be warlords.

Also, what's stopping them from doing this now? The state is too powerful? One organization seized enough power by force that they can now stomp out any competition that challenges their authority? How about that.

They're literally describing how WWI happened lol

These are the guys telling you that communism only works on paper.

Someone in one of the other libertarian threads said like "70% of people in libertarian societies work as private security, investigators, lawyers, and bureaucrats" and I've been thinking about that a lot. It's like how the American founders assumed everyone would be a lawyer with a slave plantation.

risk of warfare, which is financially untenable

Winning a war can be very lucrative, actually

I'm in love with all the ancap dunking these last few days. I forgot about most of this shit since my lolbertarian phase. Absolute toddler levels of comprehending the world

Already wrong from the first sentence, lol.

One company isn't afraid of larger firms. The largest one. They'll expand their monopoly position and dominate unless the others start merging. Then you get just a handful and they fight each other.

It's called a gang and it's how this shit goes down when you leave capitalism in place and then leave violence as the means of resolving disputes.

There can't be any warlords, see, because all the warlords will stop it.

So it’s “rules based international order” except between armed corporations instead of armed countries. I can’t see how that would ever lead to problems /s

Brb gonna tell the cartels they can't exist

This is a bunch of wild assumptions, the system breaks entirely as soon as any one of them fails.

This is basically describing how feudalism would work if the King didn't lay down rules on lesser rulers and said "You can just all defend each other out of mutual interest :) ". One lord would slaughter their way to be the new king, then lay down some rules.

Motherfucker has literally never seen, hear, or contemplated a single cyberpunk story. MGS4 was literally about this.

ARBITRATION BY WHOM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING DWEEBS

Libertarian: you see all you need is a mutually agreed upon organizing structure between independent parties

Me, an idiot: like a government?

why would Charles insist upon his claims to Naples? if he does that he'll be against thousands of italian city states!!!

other than all the obvious shit, i love when ancaps think everyone behaves rationally. the people controlling these companies are humans and humans aren't always perfectly rational.

Why there are no Warlords in the Roman Republic:

If one of the generals crosses the rubicon, the senate parliamentarian declares it to be illegal and all other generals strike the offender down.

how is this any different from a Euro explaining how the UN would stop a war between countries, right before the fascist invasion of Ethiopia?

Getting my brains blown out in the McTrenches, because down the line some guy said his burger didn't have pickles on it.

Unions for companies, not people

Man... its a shame that World War 1 never happened...

your brain on utopianism

if they all have to be worried about the other larger firms, uhh, whats the largest one doing and why does it exist?

That hilarious. Do they really believe this kind of thing?

So what happens when competition happens and the omnipotent and holy god, the invisible hand of the free market, starts removing the less competitive firms and leaves a small oligopoly or monopoly? Kinda breaks down at even the slightest tug lol

Figures that any ancap idea would be just feudalism (compare to Poland or France during the time of feudal shattering), also how great that did worked.

Ooh! The new one is out!

"Sorry Free Individual #55443546 legal name: JOHN SMITH, personal name: John Smith, but UniteCo™ Security Solutions requires you to provide a free and equal exchange of your children to our Freedom Mines™ in order to validate your UniteCo™ Security Solutions "Continued Living™" Plan. Failure to agree to the fair and balanced conditions of our contractual agreement will result in immediate termination of the plan by our Public Relations officers."

"UniteCo™ Security Solutions would also like to remind you that the contract will also be invalidated if you take up a contract with any other security company or leave UniteCo™ Security Solutions freely administered territory. Thank you for using UniteCo™ Security Solutions and enjoy a fantastic Warlord Free™ existence!"

rofl holy crap, people actually think this is even remotely workable?

the brainworms feast so well

Who puts a wall of black text on a bright yellow background? I'm not reading that

Dear Company B,

We recognize the unfortunate circumstances you find yourselves in, and understand your concern. After careful review of your request to invoke article 69 of the non-aggression contract, we have established a committee to review the fluid and rapidly evolving situation to ensure that the appropriate conditions are met to invoke such a serious response to the actions of Company A, in full compliance with the articles of the contract. Currently, this committee is set to meet at a date so far in the future that your assets will already be fully occupied and operated by Company A, as well as ourselves under the auspices of preventing occupation by Company A. We are unable to provide any further information at this time, as it is Company policy to not comment on ongoing arbitration.

An interesting question I've never seen answered is: how do ancaps propose to bring about their vision of society? It would require the overthrowing of the government and the destruction of all current corporations, but I have never once seen them call for revolution.