And, perhaps, at one time it was. Then the Progressives showed up in the early 1900s and started sowing the seeds, I guess. Fast forward to the 60s and a whole new crop of degenerates were born and started this country on the path to destruction.
Think of the freedom ship. Don’t know the website.
They are describing a medieval castle.
One tiny little example has been in operation for decades in the unincorporated areas of Yuma, Ariz. If you want fire service, you subscribe. Or, you carry a high limit credit card at all times.
Put down the cyberpunk novel, then step away from the keyboard.
Personally, something stinks about this. What happens when the private company says you can’t have a gun, can’t do something a free citizen has rights to do?
Yep.
The ruling elites have always controlled the peasant class until a couple guys in a couple colonies in North America said screw this. They threw thousands of year of establishment rule on its head. They said We, the people are in control and our rights don’t come from you, they come from God.
We lasted a bit over the predicted 200 years of a democratic based government.
Trump was a last bit attempt to keep this right from becoming wrong but I don’t think we will make it.
Won’t ever happen in the US
Silicon Valley VC guy Peter Thiel has a project something like this.
This sounds like it could end up being the HOA from hell.
Sounds like paying protection to the Mafia. And that's what it would evolve into.
If you want to try that model, just move to the ghetto and pay either the Crips or the Bloods for protection, and wear the right colors.
I studied 18th and 19th century American legal history in law school, and the "live and let live" part was certainly not true. There were laws against blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking and all sorts of other victimless crimes.
Then some dude opens a meth lab next door ...
kinda sounds like fox-conOur government was set up for a moral, self controlled population. It was tough then, but now it would be extremely difficult.
they used to call this the company store. Workers were essentially enslaved via debt to the company. The company did not even pay real money but rather company issued chips.
I believe there are laws regarding “company stores”