re: Which services should be monopolized and socialized?

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How would a private court system work?

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This was discussed in this other thread at length last weekend, if you’re interested, along with how national defense and policing would work in a free market:

https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/time-to-switch-from-government-to-the-free-market/87377867/

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Bad companies could face the following consequences (at least):
1. Ostracism from other businesses refusing to supply/support them.
2. Ostracism from their customers switching to a competitor.
3. Action taken by actual victims who are seeking justice.

How to obtain justice?

First, it is anticipated in a free market that people would obtain additional/broader insurance policies. In addition to coverage for fire, theft, car wrecks, illness, natural disasters, people would also get coverage for other crimes such as fraud, assault, murder, etc.

So when someone wrongs you, you get paid out, but also your insurance company goes after the assailant to recover damages. The assailant likely will have their own insurance provider too. These insurance people will effectively serve as the plaintiff’s and defendant’s lawyers, and they will agree upon a reputable third party arbitration firm to serve as their judge. If one side fails to fairly cooperate, they will face the consequences of free market forces for choosing to be unjust.

As for violent criminals who are a threat to society, they’d still be imprisoned too, except our government’s current incentives to have false arrests, false convictions, high prison populations would no longer be there because its cost prohibitive.

The fact is, that’s just a theory of how it could work, but the thing about innovation is we don’t know which better solutions people will continually be coming up with in a future free market. We only know that government is standing in the way of them.

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The market has done an absolute fricking shite job at providing internet in this country.

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Wut? You can get high speed Internet almost anywhere in the country which is impressive considering how vast this nation is. Even out in the rural west you can get satellite internet service