Why would anyone find this convoluted social order desirable in any way? Any time I’m a victim of a petty crime I have to get an arbitrator to prevent corporate warfare over my insurance payout? Feudalism sounds more orderly.
Because in such a system the uninsured are esentialy outiside the law. Sociopaths can do whatever they want to them. Then again in medieval times there were waifs and exiles…
Why would anyone find this convoluted social order desirable in any way?
Because it implies a bunch of value added labor - investigations, peaceful civil arbitrations, equitable adjudications, amicable and fruitful conflict resolutions - that don’t exist in the real world but seemingly should if liberal theories of social order are accepted.
It’s a fairytale of civil justice, told by babies to babies, to soothe their own anxieties about the civil nature of the modern world.
Any time I’m a victim of a petty crime I have to get an arbitrator to prevent corporate warfare over my insurance payout?
You make a single phone call and everything sorts itself out.
That’s because feudalism was at least centralized so you don’t incur all the social penalties involved with distributed human networks. Feudalism is to this what monopolies are to free markets: a centralization of communication patterns.
Why would anyone find this convoluted social order desirable in any way? Any time I’m a victim of a petty crime I have to get an arbitrator to prevent corporate warfare over my insurance payout? Feudalism sounds more orderly.
Because in such a system the uninsured are esentialy outiside the law. Sociopaths can do whatever they want to them. Then again in medieval times there were waifs and exiles…
Because it implies a bunch of value added labor - investigations, peaceful civil arbitrations, equitable adjudications, amicable and fruitful conflict resolutions - that don’t exist in the real world but seemingly should if liberal theories of social order are accepted.
It’s a fairytale of civil justice, told by babies to babies, to soothe their own anxieties about the civil nature of the modern world.
You make a single phone call and everything sorts itself out.
Absolutely Utopian.
That’s because feudalism was at least centralized so you don’t incur all the social penalties involved with distributed human networks. Feudalism is to this what monopolies are to free markets: a centralization of communication patterns.