2nd- These things are already monopolies for a reason... let's say you're actually successful, do you seriously think an omnipotent state would just allow that? Absolutely not... you'd be shut down or blacklisted or killed or WHATEVER the fact is these things are already a monopoly for a reason.
Am I to get this straight that he's claiming politics is a waste of time but that starting a business in a field where you can't even legally do so isn't? Even if you could start a business in X or Y and even if you decentralized X or Y from the government they're not going to allow such a thing. EVER. You're once again more likely to take your case directly to the people.
Government "services" do not exist because of the scarcity of free market options, governments create scarcities by their interventions. I can create a business right now that offers unskilled labor for $4/hour making unskilled labor pretty abundant, but my customers and I would all be thrown in jail for striking this voluntary agreement. Government has a monopoly on roads. Should I take one by force or just continuously offer to buy one until I find a government that wants to sell? I've actually had many ideas on how to offer improved educational services to parents in my community, but they all violate current State law -- more jail time for entering this protected market.
I don't blame you for wanting to drop out of politics. I have to admit that I don't enjoy every moment of my participation. But while you develop new businesses, other people need to work within the system. This is the only way to reach a non-catastrophic, peaceful reduction of government interference. Waiting for the withering-away (collapse) will be very messy.
The problem here is that you are looking at government as some single mythical monster, when in reality, it's just a bunch of people following their self-interest.
Remember, there was the telephone-monopoly & electricity-monopoly & what not before there wasn't. That is, after some private businesses thought to themselves,
"hey, we can make some money there!" & then they bribed & greased the necessary people in government & voila, we had privatization; of course, there's still government intervention out there BUT when we talk about a voluntary society (anarchy or voluntary minarchy) nobody asks us
"but what about the telephone? Who will provide that if not the government?" instead we get asked, by even many unconvinced so-called libertarians on RPFs,
"but what about the roads? what about the police & courts?".
Now, if there were enough rich libertarians out there with enough capital & know-how then we could potentially privatize roads, police & what not by bribing the necessary people in the government, it mayn't occur overnight but it CAN be done but the question is, are libertarians a financially powerful enough a group to accomplish this? And the answer may be "No" at this stage so if we seek liberty then we must first financially strengthen ourselves to exploit the enormous opportunities that government's inefficiencies offer us!
As for the importance of political action, one just needs to ask oneself, who has created more libertarians? - Political Ron Paul vs Apolitical Kaleb Matson - The answer to how effective political action can be to spread liberty, lies in that simple question!
I don't expect us to win politically until enough of us succed financially to support liberty (like Peter Thiel) but of course, the more of us are there the faster the change will come so changing as many people as we can is also important & political action allows us get in touch with people who are interested in politics of things.
Being political gives us a platform to spread liberty, that's what Ron Paul's life teaches us!
To me personally, I don't think a truly free society will be born by persuading the masses because they have been stupid & ignorant for time immemorial & any system has eventually been brought in top-down with intellectuals molding the opinion of the masses enough at the behest of the powerful elite so if we are to ever see a truly free society, it will also likely be top-down, just as one of the freest countries in history (aka USA) was also established by rich libertarian elite aka the Founders & it will have to be something similar once again & for that, as I've said, libertarians must first gain enough economic & financial power before they are in a position to wield enough political power to bring in the real change.
