[ExI] Self-driving tiny homes

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 5:54 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
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> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 9:14 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >       On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> >       > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 6:03 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >       >       I'm thinking self-driving "mega-homes" in the form of an
> autonomous fleet
> >       >       of boats for low taxes and free enterprise! Ok, ok, old
> ideas from
> >       >       Stephenson, but still, would be fun to see!
> >       >
> >       > Who would handle the repairs and maintenance?  When one's
> neighbor's boat, that one's own boat is too thoroughly bolted
> >       to to
> >       > facilitate disconnect in time, develops a leak that said
> neighbor is unwilling or unable to repair, does one fix one's
> >       neighbor's
> >       > property (likely without compensation, possibly without
> authorization from said neighbor) or allow it to drag one's
> >       home underwater?
> >
> >       Check the contract! That's the beaty with the free market. It
> comes up
> >       with solutions to problems that central government planning and
> socialists
> >       never would be able to come up with.
> >
> > Despite the ideal, these sorts of situations rarely come with contracts
> in practice.  The bolting just happened as a matter of mutual
> > convenience, without any formal negotiation (and certainly no written
> instrument) - and then the neighbor's boat develops that leak.
> > What do you do?
>
> Plan in advance? As with any investment or bigger project. Regardless of
> situation, form of government, or world, if you're stupid or simply don't
> care nothing will help.
>

Nonetheless, these situations come up a lot.  Government, law, et al as
they currently exist (in most countries, anyway) provides solutions when
this does.  This is among the reasons why this form of governance has won
out in practice over the libertarian ideal.  If a libertarian government
will not provide for this sort of situation - which is among its core
premises - then it will collapse if it is implemented for long for any
large enough group of people...which is more or less what happened in every
case it has been attempted that I remember reading about.
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