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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All company A has to do is ally itself with other companies that were on the bad end of judicial outcomes and claim the companies on the good end were cheating or colluding with each other, soon you'll have opposing alliances that don't recognize the judicial proceedings of the other alliances

Afterwards a sorting phenomenon will take place, where those "thousands of other security companies" have to pick between these opposing alliances otherwise they'll be blacklisted from all of them and locked out of judicial arbitration (or worse, have to pay a premium for arbitration)

Eventually the jurisdictions of these mutually exclusive judicial alliances will overlap in which case violence and warfare becomes inevitable

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

jesse-wtf

Why are you even accepting the premise?!

In the real world Company A is some ex boot or cop with a protection racket, and Company B is some christofascist militia that's building a doomsday colony. Whichever one he's paying is definitely not seeing it as a transaction between peers and neither is going to war over one of their serfs unless they already wanted to go to war. Cause they're warlords. They're warlords.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Exploding the premise is like smashing a walnut with a sledgehammer

I like beating the shit out of libertarians in their own headspace, it's one thing to refute an ideology, it's another to run circles around dipshits using their own ideology, I do it to liberals all the time che-smile

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but, they're not here though

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

details...details, besides never know what gollum-like creatures are lurking on this site

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Another outcome is that one firm starts buying other firms until it has absorbed 50% of them into itself and then it crushes the rest.