David Friedman on How to Privatize Everything

"Producing laws is not an easier problem than producing cars or food," says David Friedman, author, philosopher, and professor at Santa Clara University. "So if the government's incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?"

Friedman sat down to talk with Reason TV at Libertopia 2012 in San Diego. Friedman reflected on the impact of his landmark book, The Machinery of Freedom, discussed the differences between libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism and revealed what his father, economist Milton Friedman, thought of his anarchist leanings.

Approximately 7 minutes. Interview by Paul Feine. Camera by Alex Manning and Zach Weissmueller. Edited by Weissmueller.

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[NativeNewMexican]

Intellectual challenge for you:

Can a anarcho-capitalist society exist within an anarcho-socialist society? No

What about the reverse? Yes

This is proof, to me, that the anarcho-capitalist society is the one based on not oppressing others, not coercing others, and being free.

[CornerTalker]

Why break up America into countries? Why not just restore the Tenth Amendment?

[Henning Jensen]

Or US was better of if it was no country (anarcho-capitalism) ;)

[Fernando Alatorre]

He is waay far more radical than his father, i rather listen to Milton

[beefking69er]

At the beginning of the video he claims that producing laws is “not easier than producing cars or food”; (using it as an example as to why government is inadequate), yet his solution is the most simplistic and disaster-prone concept there is.

[Charles Peters]

6:00 Love his reaction at "Are you optimistic about the future?"

[SauerGustavo]

why not abolish the constitution and let the free market make better rules?

[TheWhiskeycreep]

Yes, because the dark ages was plagued with freedom and not feudalism.

[Michael Shanklin]

Statist fearmongering... is this George W. Obama?!?

[Teunis Dokter]

His son! I loved his father.

[415Dub]

He doesn't want to break up America into any nation-states. He wants no nation states.