Anarchy and Speculation

December 1, 2021

By NZB3

Humans do not know everything like some omniscient god. Even in a Deterministic universe the state of knowledge isn’t yet enough for us to figure out all outcomes and even if we could it would not be time well spent.

Therefore, we speculate. We guess. We estimate. We have opinions. We form stereotypes. None of these cognitive operations are anti-Anarchy.

A speculative operation involving land is not the antithesis of Anarchism. It’s more the other way around entirely.

Someone (eg 1880s Canterbury) who has used political pull to have the taxpayer build bridges and railroads to his land, thereby to grow wealthy, isn’t really speculating. He made that happen. Someone who ring-fences his city to drive up the price of land (eg Auckland) isn’t really speculating. He made that happen using State control.

Speculation is the natural order of things. It’s spontaneous, it’s free, it’s anarchic. Statists detest that which is also why Labour 6.0 is trying to fit us out with ID passports and rig the country up on on/off switch strings they’re calling “Traffic Lights.”

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