So I said that people will intentionally try to make their lives worse? I never said such a thing so this makes you quite the lying party in this.
What I stated, and I still support, is that I find unworkable the idea of all roads in a country, such as the USA, being privately owned and operated, with the owner being able to do to and on his road whatever the hell he'd want. And when I pointed out that your "system" would allow a different owner even for every mile or so, you argued that those owners would join forces, since they would be ...acting rationally!
Who's the one working in fantasy-land, now?
You are able to find your way easily enough (I'm just taking you up on your word, now) because it has become customary, in most English-speaking countries, to use the same signs for direction (i.e. arrows) and for the men's room ("WC", "Toilet", etc).
Look up how those signs became ubiquitous, if you have some spare time.
While you're doing that, ponder on this : I never claimed that government should dictate everything in our lives! Customs and habits exist and are developed every day; people can still communicate with each other fairly regularly; patterns develop; and so on. You are trying to present my position as if I deny all that.
You are trying to paint a picture of those who oppose ACism, or are merely suspicious of its many promises, as the mirror image of ACers, i.e. as people who believe in the omnipotence of their system! In fact, opponents of AC utopianism come in all sizes and ideas. My position is that in some things it's better to leave everything non-organised and in other things it's better to have things organised -- and I mean collectively organised-- with the caveat that empowering others to act on my behalf should be done as democratically as technically possible.
So I don't want, for example, totally unregulated and un-monitored restaurants (thanks but no thanks) and entrusting the cleanliness of the kitchen to the "trials and errors" of your Free Market (thanks but no thanks). However, I do support entrusting individuals with everything that has to do with themselves as physical beings, e.g. drugs, recreation, etc, as well as various significant things in life, eg the internet, where government regulation should have as little say as possible.
But, as I said, it comforts you to imagine a totally different picture of your opposition and then attack it. Ah well, you must think you're Don Quixote.
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