2. X asks real estate broker, "Don't I need air rights too?" Broker says "nah, the air's clean around here". (It is.)
3. Industry Y decides to move into town. Buys up all the unsold air rights from the broker (maybe with a little kickback). (Industry Y sells widgets, of which everyone needs an endless supply.)
4. Industry Y does what industries do and pollutes the air. Person X is out of luck, gets cancer and dies. (Person Z, who was smart and kept his air rights, is out of luck too, because everyone else sold out and it turns out particulate matter doesn't respect property law.)
Don't believe me? This is exactly what's happened with fracking. Affected homeowners are told they can't sue because they don't own the water/mineral rights around their land.
Anyway the end of this story in anarcho-capitalist-libertarian land is:
5. Person X gangs up with other townsfolk to pay their private police force to strongarm industry Y into selling their air rights to a collective trust.
6. Townsfolk look at their combined police-and-regulatory trust, see that it is good, and decide to name it "government".
1. Person X buys land because they need to live.
2. X asks real estate broker, "Don't I need air rights too?" Broker says "nah, the air's clean around here". (It is.)
3. Industry Y decides to move into town. Buys up all the unsold air rights from the broker (maybe with a little kickback). (Industry Y sells widgets, of which everyone needs an endless supply.)
4. Industry Y does what industries do and pollutes the air. Person X is out of luck, gets cancer and dies. (Person Z, who was smart and kept his air rights, is out of luck too, because everyone else sold out and it turns out particulate matter doesn't respect property law.)
Don't believe me? This is exactly what's happened with fracking. Affected homeowners are told they can't sue because they don't own the water/mineral rights around their land.
Anyway the end of this story in anarcho-capitalist-libertarian land is:
5. Person X gangs up with other townsfolk to pay their private police force to strongarm industry Y into selling their air rights to a collective trust.
6. Townsfolk look at their combined police-and-regulatory trust, see that it is good, and decide to name it "government".