finally someone who doesn't mangle the invisible hand concept
It didn't need any help though, surely? It mangled itself. It's an outdated and discredited concept, more wishful thinking than anything else.
INTJ-A
I always come out as that, too. I'd imagine we're quite over-represented on the Politics and Society board of a bitcoin forum.
I keep thinking how different the forum would be if instead of an ancap in charge we had a socialist. The hypothetical scenario of a communist, I don't even consider it, because they have the virtue of ruining everything they touch
To some people (although not myself), communism as a theoretical concept is appealing. Its crucial failure in practice is that it is so easy to corrupt. But isn't this true of any extremist ideology? An ancap society in practice would surely go the same way (albeit via a different route).
What do you imagine a forum run by a socialist might look like? Red background, hammer and sickle everywhere? Forum rules only altered in accordance with the current five-year plan? Trolls sent to Siberia for "re-education"?