More Shops Less rules. Good. More governments less rules?

In a village far far away, someone set up a shop.

The shop is run inefficiently and pretty much price gouge. People have to buy anyway because there isn’t many other shops.

There are 3 solutions.

1. Ban all shops
2. Allow MORE shops.
3. Allow shops but more regulation, like profit can’t be more than 5%, price control, etc.

As a libertarian or ancap we sort of know the right answer. MORE shops. LESS regulations. Regulations are like one shops can’t advertise falsely. In ancapnistan deceptive marketing practice will be called out by independent private certificatories and so on. Anyway, private certificatories are already possible now. BBB is one of them.

Now let’s look at our government. It’s bloated. The tax is too high. things are not run efficiently. Too much welfare.

There are 3 solutions.

1. Ban all governments. This is what PURE ancapnistan is.
2. Have more governments. Competing governments keep tax lows to attract productive individuals. Prospera is a sample. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/prospectus-on-prospera
3. Rules for governments. Tax is theft, can’t be run for profit, must be run for profit, and so on and so on.

Don’t you think that #2 has a case here?

Do I have a sample?

Yes. Look at the fucking globe. 164 countries mainly competing peacefully with one another. Few wars.

The result?

Hello? How many of us want to go back in time and live like our ancestors? Even the Africans’ living standard improve a lot. Not as high as Americans or Europeans but they’re probably just as prosperous as Europeans in 1960.

I mean look at tax is theft rule for example. With that kind of rules, where the hell can we move? Supply demand. If rules are too difficult to comply with, no demand.

But there’s more.

US is far more successful than Europe. Liechesten, Dubai, Arab, Macao are also successful.

Looks like MORE governments, like more numerous the governments, the less territory each governments control. People can shop around. More sensible the governments are.

US government is unique.

Your government has government. So state governments have federal government. County governments have state governments.

People can move and shop around for states they like.

Elon aren’t happy with California. So he moves to Texas. Suck that commie Californians.

So instead of just wanting MORE governments, why not MORE LEVEL of governments. So enough government on top to ensure states and counties don’t wage war against one another, have mutual defend, and that’s it.

What about if you’re a purist ancap?

Well, just negotiate with one owner or ruler of a private city, and turn that into ancap. Autonomy right? To me, if governments have to compete like shops it’s close enough good enough. But even if you are purist ancaps, it makes sense to see intermediate states anyway. It’s easier to convert to “pure” ancapnistan.