I think private communities like Kibbutzim is a very good way to arrange society and ancap compatible

I think joint stock kibbutzim is a very good sample of how to set up society.

Is this ancap compatible? Well….. It has rulers and rules. But it’s a private society. No libertarian think that joining a joint stock capitalist kibbutz is against libertarianism. It’s called freedom of association.

Some libertarians think that private cities are against libertarianism. However, private cities are like really really large kibbutz with possibly democratic elements. That’s also technically ancap compatible.

But let’s see why I think it’s pretty good balance, or at least, a good missing link to truly capitalistic society, even better than insisting that government should be small always and keep arguing for it based on moral. This one is actually more practical, moral, and tend to be libertarian anyway.

There are many ways to see this. We know western Europe has better arrangements than eastern europe during cold War. One telltale sign is wealth. Western Europe is capitalist. They are wealthier.

Also people can leave western Europe but people can’t leave eastern Europe.

You had entry visa for western Europe. You had exit visa for eastern Europe.

Join stock kibbutzim took this one step further. YOU GOT PAID to leave. People want to enter got to buy share. This ensures that only people with the same value and economically productive gets in.

Those who leave can sell their share. Those who want in can buy their share.

This effectively turn government into moldbug private companies.

While pure libertarians have many problems, competing kibbutzim doesn’t violate libertarian principle. Is one of them believe trans women are real women and another don’t, you just switch kibbutz.

There are other good arrangements.

Private cities Prospera and Orania is also a good sample. So is HOA. Liechtenstein and Dubai is also run like business and they’re rich. They are not only richer but more free than their neighbor.

But those have problems. They are less natural.

Prospera, for example, has no army of voters. So Honduras government simply vote against them.

Kibbutz has an army of voters. They also have an army of draftable males when push come to shove, at least in Israel. A privatized community may even hire cheaper more cost effective mercenaries.

Many kibbuts start as commune. Commune shares the same word with communist. But even private communes do not violate principle of ancap and libertarianism. Also many of those communes, eventually vote to be capitalistic.

That is even better. Imagine if cities and countries vote to turn their citizenship to be more like shareholders like kibbutz, then their government will be run more cost effectively.

This shows that capitalism is not just something we argue is right. This is something that when society are divided and compete peacefully with one another, capitalism is what naturally shows up. People actually vote for it. All we need to do is to turn large regions into many many privatized joint stock communities, or kibbutz.

In HOA people vote based on how many houses they have. Different people have different size land or houses. Should they vote based on land value or one man one vote? What about if one guy has 51 percent land and vote stupidly?

Kibbutz has democratic elements. They have one share one vote separate from land. They have an army of voters.

Who build the roads? A private sector. That solves many libertarians problem. Yes the government, or the kibbutz rulers, is a private sector.

Unlike ancapnistan that is nowhere to be found, kibbutzim are already around.

Individual freedom, like freedom to do drugs, or freedom to marry same sex or supermodel, or freedom to buy and sell sex can be decided by kibbutzim.

Okay maybe not there yet.

We don’t need to argue whether it’s right or wrong to sell organs. Just switch kibbutz.

Of course, kibbutz are small and have to obey bigger governments. But kibbutz can be multilevel and join other kibbutz like power ranger or voltus. An army of voters mean they can change the law that max out kibbutzim profit.

Shareholders gave incentive to pick economically productive strategies. Economically productive strategies will attract tax payers increasing profit that shareholders can share.

At the end, most will be like Prospera. Low taxes and low corruption.

Well performing kibbutz can be franchised. The whole power of capitalism can be used. Government will just be another business.

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Even safety net is reasonable when managed by kibbutz. Many insurance is cost ineffective. Most money in private insurance in my countries goes to marketing instead of actually paying for treatments.

When governments get involved in insurance it’s even worse. Governments prohibit discrimination based on risk. Adverse selection principles dictates that only the worse buy insurance if insurance companies can’t discriminate based on many factors. This make insurance cost ineffective.

Too many frauds and too many regulation.

With joint stock privatized communities they can accumulate funds and maintain reasonable safety net more cost far more effectively than even normal private insurance or government infested ones.

They can have more cost effective insurance and share risks. People are less likely to scam their neighbor that they live with.

Risk of being poor is actually low if you are already rich. Most poor people are people that we all know will unlikely to be rich in the first place. So government safety net is actually a scam where those who are least likely to be poor pay more premium for the same safety net.

Again, competing private communities can do this more cost effectively and work things out. When things don’t work out, people just switch kibbutz.