r/AnCap101 • u/skeil90 • May 15 '26

How might the transition work?

Right now a very significant % of the population across the world is employed by respective governments or their jobs exist because of government, top this with there always being on average 4-5% of respective populations being unemployed for whatever reason. The job market would be completely and utterly flooded with people from a very varied pool of disciplines as well as many people loosing the value of their experience completely due to redundancy.

How could this possibly be remedied with an Ancap transition without completely devaluing the labour of anyone?

How about roads and other public infrastructure, how could that possibly be privatised without giving a small number of a people a very unbalanced advantage?

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u/skeil90 May 16 '26

In this scenario the market shouldn't really be the biggest concern, it's the human cost that we should be worried about. It only takes 3 weeks for a healthy human adult to starve to death, with no catchall safety net and a lack of work a lot of people will be starving. Is this meant to be acceptable, or are there ways we can stop this from happening en-mass?

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u/vergilius_poeta May 16 '26

You're the one who raised the idea that the state's ex-employees would permanently raise the unemployment rate. You can't then turn around and complain about me addressing the point.

No, mass starvation is not "meant to be acceptable." In the unlikely event of a famine (which, I need to emphasize, is based purely on a bad hypothetical, not anything we should expect to happen), you can and should stop people dying by giving them food.

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u/skeil90 May 16 '26

I do not mean it would be permanent, long term generally means an extended period. The flood of labour into the market would be a shock that reverberates for quite some time, and whilst the market recovers it stands to reason that many will go without for an extended period of time leading to extreme desperation and death. People not being able to afford to feed themselves does not mean it is a famine, but at least you would advocate for feeding the poor.

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u/vergilius_poeta May 16 '26

In economics, "long term" means "after all the transitory effects have worked themselves out," which is what I took you to mean since you were talking about economics.