I have a question I cant resolve no matter how much I think about it, maybe you can help me:
Lets say we live in purely market economy, no state involved, and a private organization owns and operates the road in front of your small town, this is the only road to get out of the town, but you and others in the town are too poor to pay for the continuous use of that road and therefore are "imprisoned" there (assume in this scenario that you have to make several trips a day or at least more than you can pay).
What is the solution?
Reaching an understanding with the owner of the road?
Challenge his right to such road?
The real solution is probably car pooling. It is what poor people do. They (we) ride buses.
But it can also be pointed out that it makes no economic sense for the road owner to charge more than his only potential customers can afford to pay. Even if the toll is so low that it does not cover the maintence costs, not charging any toll (because no one is using the road) will lead to even higher loses.
And we all know that for such a scenario to come about the state probably had to come involved in at one point. Because in an ancap revolution such a road would promptly get seized by the Small Town Road Company in which every household would have one share (initially).
Roads? Where we're going we don't need...roads.
It should also be pointed out(and I'm surprised nobody has brought this up yet) that in an anarcho-cap society not all roads may require a toll. Some probably will, but others might find it better(more profitable) to let drivers get on for free, and charge for advertising along them(ex. Billboards), or to charge businesses to build an exit from the road to their business.
Just a thought.