Anarcho-capitalist experiment in Detroit – making social welfare profitable for individual capitalists?

[jondwhite]

"Libertarian"-minded website The State reports

http://thestateweekly.com/with-detroits-bankruptcy-anarchists-have-begun-project-free-detroit-starting-a-community-2/

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… having well-aligned market-anarchists to “utilize their own unique skills and abilities” will result in providing goods and services that city officials can no longer promise. Part of what Free Detroit members hope to provide is food production, security, water collection, education, construction, communications, child services and many others – through agorism, without any government intervention.

So, Detroit has human needs that aren't being met and aspiring capitalists think they can meet them. Well welfare isn't profitable, it's generally a cost (for individual capitalists but perhaps not society), unless governments give capitalists budgets to provide welfare and let them cream off the top.

My predictions, this will flop, suck up ideologically minded libertarian capitalist funds to prove a point (Koch bros), or concentrate access to existing welfare in fewer (richer/luckier) hands if the existing welfare agencies are really stupid enough to go for this.

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