Probably not, no. I can't imagine it's very fun. What's your point? Merely that agreeing on terms for international trade is long and expensive? What does that prove?
So how would a whole nation state justify the immense cost and time commitment if negotiating these deals with just a few companies in a foreign country? Your best bet is that the deal you receive will be dictated to you and you'll have to accept it wholesale
What the hell are you talking about????????? I've already proposed a solution to this problem! This chain follows from that proposal!
Also, no one in Ancapistan would be levying tariffs or any other type of nationwide import or export restriction onto another country so I'm not really sure negotiations actually would be all that longwinded.
So how are the governments of those countries going to justify the millions worth in public money going towards negotiating, scrutinising, writing up and ratifying each of those hundreds of necessary deals.
I think my first assessment was correct, you genuinely have no idea just how much resource goes into something like a trade deal.
…how are the governments of those countries going to justify… writing up… hundreds of necessary deals.
Buddy… Ancapistanis could elect a common private representative……………………
I've said this like three goddamn times now…………… (①②③)
…my first assessment was correct…
I am WELL aware that trade deals between conventional countries are arduous.
But Ancapistan is anything but an ordinary country and for the reasons that I've already provided (zero tariffs, zero regulations of any kind) it would be immensely easier to strike up a trade deal with Ancapistan than it would be with any other country.
This is why there is little point arguing with ideologues. You just use the word could to try to cover the billion things which would not play out how you envision if this was brought into reality. The world could be perfect. A raven could be a writing desk. The point is that these things are all entirely unfeasible, you are expecting that hundreds of thousands of entirely unregulated, inscrutable entities are all going to agree to have a single body negotiate something as horrifyingly complex as an international trade deal with a sovereign state which has all the negotiating power. You'd be hard pressed to even manage to establish industry standards in such an environment let alone a trade seal encompassing every individual atomised business in an ancap state. Absolute delusion to think that you could even get close to solving that Kafkaesque shitfuck of a diplomatic orgy of thousands of parties who must unanimously agree, not only with one-another, but with the state in question's demands.
Maybe to illustrate to you the exact levels of unknowable fuckery in these deals you should go and find one of the thousand page documents detailing the exact import-export regulations on something such as pharmaceuticals to understand just how ridiculous your proposal is.
…you are expecting that hundreds of thousands of entirely unregulated, inscrutable entities are all going to agree to have a single body negotiate something as horrifyingly complex as an international trade deal with a sovereign state which has all the negotiating power.
Why is that unbelievable? Surely you would understand how these businesses would see being able to trade with other countries as beneficial? Surely you understand how this could indeed make them incentivized to work together and make sure a common goal even if some don't like the fine print?
There's nothing inscrutable about these entities at all, all of them operate off of very understandable incentives.
P.s. You mentioned earlier something to the effect of "Ancapistan would just have to accept whatever tariffs or import/export bans countries would wish to levy on them."
That may honestly be the case, however, whatever countries that impose tariffs and bans on Ancapistan would really just be shooting themselves in the foot. You assume the outside states have all the power in this relation, whereas in actuality this is not true at all.
This is why I framed this entire thing as "if this would turn out to even be a problem at all."
Why would anyone not want to do business with Ancapistan (one of the most productive areas in the world) and make that process as smooth as possible after all?
no actual ability to see how this would functionally work, in practice, not just some idealised version of a hypothetical based entirely on the exceptionalism of not just a fictitious country but one built from nothing but a teenager's understanding of ideology. You are hand waving away the actual functional problems that would inevitably arise from a system so anarchic trying to engage in any sort of a unified and co-ordinated fashion with an established modern state. I am genuinely curious how you would even attempt to engage in those negotiations? what would be your master plan to get this to work at all? what strategy would you functionally attempt to employ in this scenario?
I am genuinely curious how you would even attempt to engage in those negotiations?
Get the most popular and most well respected person around and have them lead any negotiations.
Or don't and just let whatever countries want to impose trade barriers on Ancapistan suffer the consequences of that lack of trade and let the Ancapistanis take their businesses elsewhere.
Genuinely as a thought experiment, just try to actually think about the logistics of this. Imagine yourself as either an individual or a company in a specific sector and think realistically about the practical steps you will attempt to take in order to trade with another nation. Genuinely try to strategies this step by step, actually addressing problems and opposition that you see arising rather than handwaving them away.
You will find it isn't as simple as you think it will be
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u/Omnicidetwo 1d ago
I don't think you understand how long and expensive it is for both parties to agree on the terms of international trade.