I agree. I have seen the wonders that laissez-faire capitalism has done for places like Somalia. There is no government with any real power, so capitalism has free reign. Everything is pay-as-you-go. All roads are toll roads. All services, such as firefighters, are pay-per-use. Water treatment/purification is built into the water bill. Electricity is a funny thing because there are so many competing companies that there are areas with 3 sets of power lines. Laissez-faire capitalism at its finest.
Of course, having to deal with all the dead bodies in the street, the daily rapes, the starvation of the poor, the warlords with private "brothels".... all that really sucks, but it is more than made up for with the economic gain that they have made with money ruling the day over government.
Here is an interesting story. Without a government, nobody is patrolling the waters off the shore. At night other countries are dumping industrial waste, including radioactive waste on the shoreline. The tsunami washed the waste into a village. The village of 200 people is now dead. But this is one of the joys that they now have without a government. Think of the surprise when they opened these barrels that these people otherwise wouldn't have had!
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Even in the United States we see what more capitalism means. A *HUGE* cap between the rich and the poor. A society is ultimately judged by how it treats its weakest and most vulnerable members.
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