Say Alice makes $2 million a year and Bob makes $20,000 a year. Bob feels Alice has wronged him. In an Anarcho-Capitalist society, what is Bob's recourse?
Sue in arbitration. If Bob is in the right, Bob wins, Alice pays.
What if Alice refuses to accept arbitration? Baaad idea. Then
nobody will want to do business deals with her except maybe cash on the barrel head. No matter how she got the money (something you conveniently skipped over), she's going to find it hard to increase it or even keep it as she spends it over time--assuming merchants will even do business with her.
What if she "buys off" the arbiter? Then, if the general public perceives this as an injustice, that arbitration agency never works in this town again. Also, Alice gets treated exactly as in the paragraph, above.
Now here is something I bet you didn't think of. What if Alice sues Carol in arbitration? I bet finding an agency that will work with Alice will be difficult. Maybe Carol simply refuses arbitration. Normally this would be bad, but most people would laugh and say, "serves her right."
But maybe Alice gets Carol to arbitrate, but Carol counter claims asking for big damages. Does Alice continue? If she loses, does she pay? If she pays, well, that 2 mil didn't turn out to b such an advantage after all, your hand-waving to the contrary. My guess is that if Ms Rich Bitch loses and doesn't pay, she's dead metaphorically and maybe for real.
Just an additional note about scenarios. I mentioned this before, but WarZone chose to ignore my advice. Before you play the game, you have to create a plausible scenario. Above, I alluded to the fact that
how Alice got $2 million was avoided (strategically, if I had to guess). Either she made it legitimately or she inherited it. If the former, she has a history of playing by the rules. Strange she should decide to commit financial seppuku in her dealings with Bob. If she inherited it... well, we all know about the wastrel children of the rich. All they do is piss the money away. If their parents were nouveau riche, then the old cultural observation plays out, "shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three generations."
Truth be told, I like to argue, but I have work to do. So in the future, when the trolls, or the merely uninformed, start making special pleadings, I will restrain my inner warrior and simply ask for the context and justification for silly and/or outlandish "gotcha" scenarios. (It's okay with me, though, if Terry Freeman or some of our other bright posters, kick your ass.)
