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So they do....weird.
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[quote user="Malachi"]"the power of the state" as if "the power of the state" is a fixed thing. "the power of the state" is an idea..."state power" is a scare term.[/quote] Guns are real, property seizure is real, prisons are real - not mere ideas. This is what the "power of the state" means
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[quote user="Minarchist"]A state doesn't have to enforce all of its laws at all times in order for it to make black market production in certain industries unprofitable - and therefore non-existent. Black market production of gasoline in the US - there is none.[/quote] [quote user="Aristophanes"]My African example is a counterexample
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[quote user="Minarchist"]A state doesn't have to enforce all of its laws at all times in order for it to make black market production in certain industries unprofitable - and therefore non-existent.[/quote] [quote user="Malachi"]yes, entry into certain industries is unprofitable regardles s of what criminal elements are doing
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@Malachi A state doesn't have to enforce all of its laws at all times in order for it to make black market production in certain industries unprofitable - and therefore non-existent. Black market production of gasoline in the US - there is none. Why? Because the state is able to enforce it's law regarding gasoline production (taxes, regulations
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Gold. The alternative gives the state an opportunity and a temptation to inflate.
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Aristophanes, If a certain line of production violates the laws of the state where it is occurring, but the state permits it to proceed anyway , ignoring its own law, that is "illegal" or "black market" production in a completely trivial sense - while it is de facto legal production. The distinction I'm making between legal and
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[quote user="Malachi"]agorism already works[/quote] So that's why we're living in a free society right now?
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Aristophanes, Regarding your point about the international market: Black market production means production which is illegal per the laws of the state that has jurisdiction over the area where this production is occurring . If something is produced legally, the mere fact that the product in question may be illegal somewhere else , outside the state
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[quote user="Jargon"]I believe that large-scale in that case was referring to the goods in question and not their processes of production.[/quote] Actually, I did mean the processes of production. [quote user="Minarchist"]How does a car factory hide its activities to avoid paying taxes and observing regulations? Or a steel plant