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  • frezik@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    12 days ago

    And you’ll be able to live in your anarchist commune if you want, we’ll leave you alone, we promise. Ignore the fact that there’s a whole subreddit dedicated to “free helicopter rides”. In fact, to try to get you on my side, I’ll claim that what you want is just another form of anarcho-capitalism.

    The problem is clearly that you never studied anarcho-capitalism before. Everyone who studied and understood it is on my side.


  • Yeah, it’s not totally obvious. It’s an old phrase and I’ve never really liked it. A similar one is “trader prince”, which is pronounced a lot like “traitor prince”, which of course means something totally different.

    Anyway, it’s usually a prince that’s also a merchant. Historically, it refers to merchants who aren’t really princes or even any kind of nobility, but they get rich as fuck by trading across the kingdom. In the case above, the story focuses on a family that wasn’t originally noble, but got there after a very peculiar trade monopoly.



  • He’s also made some damn insightful comments over the years. I wish a little less insightful in this case. He had a programming background and usually isn’t full of shit.

    “The Merchant Prince’s” series is deep into pre-Great Recession liberal economics, but still a pretty good read.