The Jovian @thejovian@anarchism.space

My new blog is now online at: https://personaljournal.ca/the-jovian/

You can find my new short fiction there. It's still work in progress and will be updated and made better over the coming months.

So my current financial situation's getting kinda bad. I'm still unemployed and a series of expenses this last month have almost depleted my savings and I still have dental treatments to pay for because the UK's universal healthcare isn't as universal as I'd like. I feel really embarrassed but I've set up a Ko-fi page and I was hoping that someone here would help me out a little if you can.

https://ko-fi.com/thejovian

Be who you want to be, not who insecure internet weirdos think you should be and mock you for not being.

True liberty, true freedom and true libertarianism can only be found in freedom from hierarchies like capitalism. Not freedom of hierarchies to be as hierarchical and ultimately as authoritarian as they want to be.

Anything else is not libertarian and therefore anarcho-capitalism with its insistence on hierarchical capitalism as a driving force of society to be unrestrained and uncontrolled can only lead to authoritarianism, not libertarianism.

3. (continued) ...we have a very big problem. A problem that runs at the very core of why capitalism is in fact incompatible with the concept of individual liberty and freedom.

If you combine a hierarchical economic system with absolute individual freedom, you end up with feudalism in practice as the people on top the economic hierarchy have infinite capability to exploit, mistreat, abuse and ultimately discard the overwhelming majority at the bottom of the hierarchy.

3. Somebody still has to do those jobs. Those boring, mind numbing, back breaking, soul destroying, poorly paying jobs. Not everyone can work in specialized fields or become a middle manager with a decent paycheck because it's not possible for everyone to be employed as such. People need to do low paying jobs because they are necessary to keep businesses and society functioning and if they do not pay a living wage because those workers have no say in management then...

2. People often don't want to be employed where they are. Personally I've never wanted to work retail but circumstances made it so I had no choice, I lack the qualifications to get a better paying job and I don't have the money to get said qualifications. And as the humanities degrees have demonstrated people often can't be employed in the areas they wanted to find work because capitalism has deemed those fields too unprofitable to be worth bothering with.

The common argument is that it's okay for a workplace to be a privately owned dictatorship because the workers all "consented" to it when they signed their contracts and that "if they don't like their job, they should just quit it and find a different one."

This argument makes no sense for so many different reasons.

1. Imagine if instead of workplaces we talked about nation states. "If you don't like your government, just move somewhere else."

Your ideology is not libertarian. There's nothing libertarian about giving an individual and unlimited mandate to be a complete and total dictator within their private property, often at the expense of the rights and liberties of other people that have to exist within their private property.