I consider my self an anarchist of the Proudhon variety in that I think that property is theft. I have no problems with markets or non-state issued money, but I remain convinced that artificially increasing scarcity through private ownership of the means of production creates a greater gap in the socio-economic scale within a society and leads to non-voluntary relationships between those who have access to capital and those who do not.

As long as there is scarcity in the market, there is a natural coercive force that accompanies that. People will do what they have to in order to get the things that they need to survive. While I doubt that we will ever eliminate all scarcity, I think we can eliminate artificial scarcity by allowing those who produce the products to claim ownership of the means of production that they use. In doing so, we eliminate the artificial coercive force that forces them to labor on something that they might not wish to, but must do in order to obtain what they need to survive. Then, and only then, will contracts between two people be truly voluntary.

Some examples to get us of on the same path:

A: You hire a programmer in India to write you an app for your business. you negotiate a price and he agrees to it. He does the work and you pay him.

B: You want to start a factory, so you find some land owners who want to sell their farm land and you buy it from them and build your factory. The land owners are happy, but the farm workers are now out of their jobs. You hire them to work in your factory but pay them only a fraction of what they were making before. With high levels of unemployment in the area and no other farms hiring, they take what work they can get to survive.

In the fist example, their is natural coercive forces at work. I have no problem with that and I think that is what most people in this sub imagine when they talk about ancapistan.

In the second example, there are artificial coercive forces which leads to non-voluntary relationships and greater hierarchy within the society. This is what most people in /r/anarchism think would happen in ancapistan.

So, why won't the second scenario happen in a stateless society that allows for the ownership of private property?