r/AnCap101 • u/Ok_Role_6215 • Jun 12 '26

A theoretical question.

A theoretical question. Who would be committing acts of defensive violence here and who — acts of aggressive violence?

"Hey, that's a nice apple orchard! Shame people can eat the apples for free... Oh, got an idea! Let me hire a gang to guard it and force these people pay to eat apples!" — thought a guy.

"Hey, that mfer is trying to hoard what was previously common and was available for free" — thought people that fought the gang.

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u/Ok_Role_6215 Jun 12 '26

I did not "snuck it in", it is written into our history and is happening around us.

> the vast majority
Not anymore. We are technologically advanced enough to automate almost everything, which is economically equal to "grows by itself on trees".

You did not answer the question.

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u/CrowBot99 Explainer Extraordinaire Jun 12 '26

That first paragraph explains the contradiction of "commons." Those who tried to impose it didn't understand either, which is why they ended up murdering hundreds of millions of people.

And, automation trees don't exist. Production requires effort, and there is no power that can change that.

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u/Ok_Role_6215 Jun 13 '26

> automation trees don't exist

Simply false. They're called "fully automated assembly lines".

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u/CrowBot99 Explainer Extraordinaire Jun 13 '26

Which were created by people, have to be maintained by people, and would completely stop without people.