[ExI] Self-driving tiny homes

[efc at disroot.org]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 5:54 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
>
>       On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
>
>       > 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. 

Crappy solutions, that hardly work for the common man. The libertarian 
ideal has never been tried, but I predict it will be the next stage of 
human development once we put to death the idea of government based on 
violence or the threat of violence, and a majority oppressing a minority.

> 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.

Therefore it will. The beauty of free markets, with customers instead of 
serfs, is that it finds a way, even if you cannot see it yourself. That's 
what brilliant entrepreneurs are for! =)