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This video became extremely relevant, thanks for the California raising minimum wage to 20 USD, which forced companies to raise prices on foods, and in turn make more customers disenfranchised with that decision, as they instead seek better alternatives like cooking meals at home and meal delivery services.

Good luck! I'd like to buy a copy. Looks like a good design.

Hey man, just nice to hear from you whatever you're doing and wish you the best. Your videos have been a boon to humanity.

Very surprising to see bitbutter come up in my subscriptions!

Added it to my wishlist 💪

The moment I saw the 'while true' with only a conditional break, I knew lmao...

What a surprise, have you made other games in the past?

ooh, i had the same game in a snake game i wrote (well it still should get some polish)! instead of winning the game it just crashed trying to place the next apple 😅.

its always a while loop 😔

ah, the monsters move down step by step… so it's like Space Invaders. ;) but seriousy though. that's a some cool, innovative game. very nice!

if anyone played the axe ghost demo and quit in disgust because there were no tool tips explaining the weapons, that's very understandable! the bug that was preventing tool tips from showing in some cases has been fixed if you have any issues please leave a comment, I'll fix it 🫡

Wow Innovative for sure

Wishlisted!

Congratulations! I hope you sell lots of copies. Those libertarian animations and your novel ain't gonna finance themselves 💪

It looks very cool. But in the demo it doesn't display what the card does when I hover the mouse over it or even select it. 🤔

I hope this makes the money thats needed for you to share your beautiful ability to articulate "sociology". ❤

Congrats man! Looking good

Dapperton and Bitbutler both making games at the same time? Coincidence?

the demo link is broken, likely got truncated by youtube, only opens steam

Interesting, great work!

Nice

The whole system is predicated on three things: 1) Everyone agrees to the system of PMCs (“Rights Enforcement Agencies”), which would effectively act in a duel capacity of legal and martial/civil defense, and a private court system. Both of which can easily be corrupted but somehow are “incentivized” not to. Both would have no shared uniform framework so courts would be arbitrary in their decisions and REAs would vary wildly on their terms or rules. You’d have to enforce “laws” via amicable arbitration, otherwise what’s to stop REAs from ignoring rulings. Or worse still REAs ignoring the wills of their subscribers and becoming a criminal syndicate outright, turning it into an extortion racket. Just think about what happened in many an Antiquity or Renaissance era Italian city when a Free Company (Mercenary Army) was hired to protect the town or region only to decide and seize the town for themselves. Heck the Anglo-Saxons-Jutes were mercenaries hired by the Romano-Britons to fight against the Picts after the government (Roman Empire) left, only for the mercenaries to seize the land and make it their own turning Britain into a series of warlord states (the Pentarchy). 2) “Wars are unprofitable”. Which ignores petty disputes leading to armed conflict, because legal frameworks only work when both sides agree with the outcome and if people don’t care about the losses or the supposed gains the notion of loss is itself lost in the clamor for victory. It isn’t profitable if you lose, it’s profitable if you win. If someone continues to ignore or go against the “Private Courts” rulings then what’s to stop them? Force. If enough people ignore the rulings or their “REA(s)” decide to ignore court rulings what’s to stop them. The British/Dutch/French East India Trading Companies expanded and controlled vast swaths of territory, expanding without being told to by their respective countries (they were beholden to their stockholders) by use of force, coercion, or bribery. Their “court systems” were based off their countries respective court systems but had no incentive to protect native populations from their Companies’ wills. All were chartered companies that weren’t funded by their governments until they failed, which then required government annexation and intervention. 3) Everything relies on the absence of corruption in any degree. Which companies and businesses are prone to do without oversight/enforcement of laws. Governments can have corruption, but the revolution and/or democratic change happens if it gets too troublesome. If a company or business becomes corrupt it fails, becomes a Ponzi scheme, is incentivized for its own survival to seize more assets to make profit, shrinks/downsizes to make profit again (which is impossible to succeed in a corrupt company), or the owner/CEO/Board of Directors take the money and run. In the case of a mercenary force (PMC) they begin to seize assets or coerce people to “give” assets, because what’s to stop them. Wagner PMC, which admittedly was practically an arm of the Russian state before 2021, owns many oil fields and properties in Sudan and Syria that they were “given” as “payment” to fight in said countries. Wagner is a corrupt PMC but still made profit until the failed March on Moscow.

As someone that was off work injured for a long time, i was searching for an alternative job that i was physically capable of doing such as an office job. Because of government intervention i couldnt find a job since i wasn't skilled enough to qualify for minimum wage although i was willing to work for less. The other issue was that any new employer couldn't employ me because of my injury and didn't want to risk getting sued.

Well done video!

"oh the individual firms would never do war, that's not very profitable" thats an excellent argument, as we all know war is historically very rare and firms never make bad investments :)

Very good video, but im surprise to learn how difficult is to find a video about this topic in English... here in Brazil, we have a dozen ancap channels with videos talking about it.

And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If you’re in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: OPC, PCA, Rpcna, Urcna, or a Canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian/Reformed churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe an Lcms Lutheran church. If you’re Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC. (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you’re English I recommend the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England & Wales and the Free Church of England (Different from the Church of England) Also online you can look up church finders for each of the groups, it will show you locations. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. - Hebrews 10:24-25

Does anyone have suggested reading for this topic?

Dog be here really just rebranding Feudalism. 😂

Brooooo this sounds like an absolute nightmare lol. I'm happy having a government instead

one person one vote gives the vast majority of people a higher share of decision making power. this world of private courts would be volatile, violent, and inconsistent, and even in the best case scenario, we can already see the private ISDS courts that already exist and how they serve the interests of the most powerful countries and corporations to the detriment of everyone else

in the real world there are lose-lose wars that keep on going, and there are lose-win wars since not all participants in wars are of relatively equal power. also we know what happens when a corporation has an army, just look at the early history of colonialism. it doesn't need customers. it just acts like an undemocratic government. also outcomes of elections do a significant effect on individual lives, and the real obstacle to better decisions is not individual lazyness it's education level, stress of being overworked, and billionaire & conglomerate owned media, campaign finance corruption, and a horribly designed system of representative government in the US.

No government, but each person is a customer to a firm that they pay money to in order to have their rights protected and disputes settled (just like how taxes are paid by individuals who then fall under the rules and regulations of that government that taxes are paid to) Also, if laws aren't set up as universal guidelines, but instead utilized as a product in order to attract firms who wish to participate under laws that are favorable to their business, doesn't that open up even more potential for enforcement agencies to be bought off by said firms? Since there's no overriding law against paying your way to victory, and any law against that would be up to the enforcing party, they could easily take as many bribes as they want and deem it legal Also, if in this imaginary society you're the loser in a case under a particular enforcement agency, what's to stop you from just not paying up and taking the case to another enforcement agency that favors you? Since there is no universal law or enforcement entity, but rather those that are opted in by firms, there is nothing stopping one from just taking their opponent to a different enforcement entity of their choosing and not accepting what the previous one decreed as the verdict

"Anarcho"-capitalism speed-running the creation of a state once it realizes that it needs some means to resolve disputes. Absolutely hysterical

I love how his epic alternative to government is literally a mafia protection racket with hot babes lmao just admit you want to drink the blood of poor people

What if I can't afford any of the Rights Enforcement Agencies? They don't have any incentive to defend me if I can't afford to pay them. What if the Richest buy out all the Rights Enforcement Agencies? The Rights Enforcement Agencies have all the reason to accept the highest bidders. They're private entities without any laws to keep them in check. I believe what we now have is what was once called Feudalism: a Caste State where the Richest hold all the rights and everyone else has none. We developed Democracy so we could get away from this. I swear you Libertarians have a more naive view of human natures then Communists do.

The age old libertarian argument of "War is bad financially and so no one would ever go to war. Please ignore all of history."

So as a poor person, I should try to find the private courts that are NOT motivated by money. Which is all of them, because they're private courts. And I have to do this every time a person wants to use their comparatively greater resources to take advantage of me. Which they will, because there is a financial incentive to do so. You know, you could have just said "Yes, poor people will have fewer rights".

So... a government, but with extra steps.

Instead of having a government let’s have a much, much, much worse system that was already tried throughout history 😂?

Soo… a government? ..But ..worse in everyway?

Two main problems here: 1) just like in a capitalist-influenced democracy, the "private court" in this libertarian setup can essentially be bought off by the large private powers that govern the market of right enforcement agencies. What stops the agencies from colluding or simply becoming a monopoly that GOVERNS the rights and behavior of its subjects? 2) Also, if you're poor, do you have any rights enforced? If you have to pay for a rights enforcement agency, that implies that the richest people have their rights fully enforced, and the poorer people pay for the "economy package" of rights. This is basically government but with business warlords instead of states.

Wow that’s crazy, if only these middle-school economic theories actually played out in the real world, instead of minimum wage objectively not reducing employment and objectively raising wages, then your anarcho-capitalist with Confederate characteristics would actually be a good model. Too bad it’s not true, and raising minimum is something that actually improves wages.

SO you want government replaced by.....a worse government that operates like a mafia?

You literally just described a state, that’s what a state does. What do you think all these private right enforcers are going to do, they’ll combine together and have a monopoly on violence just like the state or they’ll go to war, I know he addressed war by just saying they won’t cause it’s not profitable and to that I say, it absolutely is profitable to violently seize the assets of your competitors.

So… You made a government with extra steps. You’re still just paying taxes. Also what stops these groups from just meeting together and forming a monopoly? If there’s no government and it’s all privatized, they could just you know. Make a monopoly and charge 90% your wage there’d be no downside If a smaller start up tries to make a competitor, The monopoly can just murder them. Because why not, no law except private companies they decide the law. And sense they form a monopoly anyone who isn’t them can be destroyed without any consequence This system would basically just turn into warlords OR it’d just become a government again.

So Racketeering?

What if I chose to flat out not participate in the private court and refuse to honor your contract?

'Private rights enforcement agencies,' also known as mafias.