• hperrin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Anarcho-capitalism would be horrifying if actually put into practice. Oh, you lost your job and can’t afford the fire insurance? And your toaster was built without any safety regulations? And your electricity was provided by the lowest bidder? Have fun watching your house and all your belongings burn down. Then you get to try to literally pull yourself up by your bootstraps, because you have nothing. You (rightfully) didn’t trust banks, since there aren’t any government agencies to help you if your bank collapses, so all your money was stored on your *checks notes* phone (yay, crypto), which burned up in your fire. But don’t worry, your private key is backed up by the people who hacked your phone and stole all your money last week. So you can rest assured knowing your money didn’t just disappear, it’s paying for someone else’s champagne. There’s nothing you could do about it anyway, even if there was a government, because crypto is so awesome and secure that once your money is stolen, there’s literally no way to ever get it back, period. Unless, of course, you fork the blockchain. But who would do that? Cough cough etherium cough cough. (Kinda defeats the entire purpose of crypto, huh?) But you can’t even fork the blockchain, because hashgraph doesn’t have a blockchain. So I guess you’ll just go hungry tonight sleeping in the woods, but oops, you got shot for trespassing, because those woods were owned by The Company, and The Company can’t afford to let you stay there. Don’t worry though, your body will decompose and return to the earth, where it will mix with the pollutants dumped by The Company into the land they own. Maybe a flower might grow, so you’ll have something someone can remember you by.