Hey, Lurkin Rose here on a windy mountaintop. I'm gonna see if I can shelter this microphone from the wind
So it isn't rumbly-bumbly like last time
so
somebody asked
Facebook YouTube I forget where maybe both
Well, how does property work under anarchy?
And it's as usual there are several levels of weirdness under anarchy just means if we don't have a giant ruling class
So if we don't have literally the biggest thief in the history of the world that steals more property than anybody else combined by a
Factor of like a zillion
how would property ownership work and
To be a little bit sympathetic the the question comes from that
Uncertainty that's just built into reality
What if I'm there and I built my little homestead somewhere in a gang of ten like immoral violent thugs comes and decides to take it by force
You're probably gonna lose you might die. You'll probably lose your property
What they want government to be is a magic force that supersedes reality and uncertainty and
humanity and
malice and and
Just magically protects people
in spite of the fact that they already know that it isn't that like if
You're out in the wild and ten violent thugs that cost you is the existence of politicians somewhere gonna magically make them stop
No, it already doesn't do that
Now if you get away from them and get home is that gang of thugs gonna rob you if you own property?
Yeah, it's gonna rob you if you have income that they know about. Yeah, is it gonna rob you if you spend money anywhere? Yeah
Why are you advocating the biggest thief in the world?
Uh because in order to protect property rights, that's kind of bonkers and silly
But it comes from that notion that they want an all-powerful
Superhuman entity to guarantee that the good guys win
Which as I've said before if there was such a thing. Yeah, I'd be all in favor of that. There isn't this is reality
but the way they talk they'll they'll come up with scenarios like well
What if there's like a roving gang of thugs that just that has no respect for property?
You mean like government no other roving thugs that have no respect for property then it comes down to a contest of violence and
That's just a truism
duh
It's a truism in any setting in any country in any place in any time
Now as it happens now we live in a time where lots and lots of people actually
Comprehend at least at a basic level and respect the concept of property, okay?
That's things yours me beating you up and stealing it would not be good. That would be bad. So I'm not gonna do that
Sounds pretty basic, but for a huge amount of human history that wasn't actually the norm
It might be well
I don't steal my brother's stuff, but that tribe over there if we can kill them and take their stuff
That's perfectly fine
Like a lot of human history is that even without government and then government comes along and commits way more thuggery and theft than everybody else
But what people want is a guarantee that nasty people can't possibly rob innocent people
There is no such a guarantee
There is however a guarantee that nasty people will
Absolutely rob innocent people over and over and over again, and that's called government
It guarantees there will be mass theft constantly over and over again
and
Doesn't guarantee you'll be protected from other thieves either so it just adds a gigantic thief the biggest thief in the world
But so that the question is interesting not so much in the answer because the answer is
Kind of obvious. How does property work if you build something?
It's rightfully yours if other people don't recognize it as being rightfully yours and try to take it by force
You might have to defend it by force or if you think you're gonna lose you might have to abandon it and run away
Just not that you're morally obligated to that's just a description of reality
But people want this magical thing called authority to outrank reality and make reality not happen
And the fact that we have centuries and centuries of direct evidence of government doing the exact opposite
From protecting property
Doesn't seem to phase these people from thinking well, this is why we need government. Well, is it the biggest thief in the world?
Well, yeah, but otherwise somebody might rob you do other people rob you anyway
Well, yeah, but every once in a while the cops catch one of them and then what happens do they get put in a cage and given
Stolen loot that government stole
They get free room and board
So now if a thief gets caught by government they get free room and board paid for by money stolen from you
You really think that's how you preserve property rights
but
So the practical just it's not even like here's my sophisticated solution to the problem. It's just a description of reality
That if the thugs are bigger and stronger than the decent people decent people are probably getting robbed and bullied and
Decent people need to figure out how to organize and forcibly defend against thugs. That's just
That's just a description of reality. It's not a suggestion
It's I mean it obviously demonstrates why we need more and more people to understand and respect the concept of self ownership and property and all that
Which is mutually exclusive to believing in and respecting government and political authority
But besides just describing a reality everybody knows which isn't even an answer like an anarchy
How will property work that you already know the answer to that?
If there's enough good people that respect property and will defend against thugs works just fine
If there's three people who respect property and a hundred people who don't those three are in deep shit
They might want to run off and hide some
make a tiny little
community and
Learn how to fend off
thieves
But in addition to just describing the reality of the situation
I wanted to make this video to point out the weird mentality that makes people ask such things
It's it really is as silly as saying well if if we don't have Santa Claus. How is Christmas gonna work?
I'm sorry if this is a spoiler for anybody, but
We don't have Santa Claus
Whether Christmas is gonna work or not doesn't change that
Oh, but what if some good kids don't get any any presents some good kids don't get any presents and Santa Claus doesn't exist
Like but we need Santa Claus doesn't matter how much you think we need Santa Claus. He doesn't exist
So the idea like that it's like a mental crutch for people
Like I'm not sure I'd feel all that secure in the world without this magical mythical thing protecting me
So I'm gonna advocate this magical mythical thing protecting me. Well, does it protect you? Well, no
Does it rob you more than everybody else? Yeah
So why are you clinging to that?
Why don't you just let go and accept the fact that you live in a world of uncertainty with no guarantees?
Somebody might murder you today. Somebody might murder me today. I'm pretty easy to find and pretty easy to kill
I'm not bulletproof same as true of you same as true of almost everybody
If you want some
Guarantee that that's not gonna happen
You're gonna be wanting forever if you want some guarantee nobody's gonna rob you
You're gonna be wanting forever if you want some guarantee that you can have property rights and nobody will violate them
You're gonna be wanting that forever
The thing that matters to make that happen is the mentality in the belief system of the people around you
And if the people around you believe in government your property rights are already doomed yourself ownership is already doomed
They all think they have the right to rob you by way of government and
The weirdest thing is you thinking well
We better cling to that government thing because at least they have a process if somebody like steals my property
I can go to them and file a report and they won't do anything and
In the meantime, I'm literally being robbed to pay them to not do anything and being robbed to pay them to do
All sorts of evil grab a warmongering
Because they're the biggest thief in the world, but it really shows the inherent
Immaturity of statism and the fact that it's the mentality of children
But if mommy isn't here, how will mommy isn't here?
Daddy isn't here. There's just us you and me and lots of other people
That's all there is. That's the top and you
growing up in this
infantile mentality and wanting to be wanting there to be some all-powerful good guy
To make sure bad things don't happen. That's delusional. It's ridiculous
If you want to make sure bad things don't happen
You should probably do things so that you can stop bad things from happening
And you should probably get to know some people who aren't advocating bad things and robbery and theft
You should probably figure out you're at the top and if there are some people
Capable of thuggery and theft
If there are nasty people out there willing to do that there should probably be some good people out here
willing to use force to stop them from committing theft and
It's weird how many people and this is particularly true of the left. I'll just pick on them for a little bit
Well, I would never think of owning a gun or using force. Now. Who's gonna protect me?
You if you're not even gonna protect yourself or the people around you. Why the hell should anybody protect you?
I mean, I still would even if you're disarmed if I happen to be there and somebody's robbing you
I'm gonna try to stop them
But that childish mentality of like it can't be on me
It can't be on us. We're just mere mortals
We need an authority to protect us and to protect our property rights and to make sure nothing bad ever happens
So we're gonna keep advocating this thing that makes more bad things happen than anything else in the history of the world
So let me turn the question around on you
If you don't want to be robbed if you believe in property ownership
First of all, what would you do in the absence of a ruling class to try to stop yourself from being robbed?
second of all
Why do you think it would help the situation to have a group of people that has societal permission?
to rob you
How do you think that helps to protect your property rights?