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what the ever-living f^#$ is this bull$@%^?

I am not concerned, I think its naive to assume it would not happen. Which I think most people think it won't. Regarding cost of violence, yes, its not cost effective in many cases, but you overestimate the cost of violence. Assume someone is behind in paying you $50,000. It would help payments to send 3 armed men to their house once a week for a whipping every week they don't pay and charge them $500 fee to cover the service as part of the contract. I guarantee you would collect faster and I guarantee people would sign it (in order to borrow $50,000 to maybe start a business or help buy a house). Also, why is pimping make financial sense to both the pimp and the chattel? Has little to do with the legality of the industry. Make it legal, there will be pimps too (see all of history). I never thought this way until I met more types of people in the world. Most people live in a bubble, I used to. People will sell their own life if you give them the opportunity. If you really don't think so, you need to get out more.

I believe socialist mindset comes from weak realizing they need a master to protect them from strong people. In the past, servitude to a strong protector King or something would offer them protection and care. In today's world, socialist governments offer this protection. I think its a logical, biologically driven need. So it would not simply disappear if there were more opportunities.

You don't choose to live in a voluntary society. Say one day the government is overthrown and now there is no government. It's not something to simply choose. The same people who exist today would exist in a voluntary society. Dumb lazy people will always exist. How does living in a voluntary society vs modern society make any difference? The only difference is that there are legal protections to help curb this behavior. In a voluntary society, there would be no government interventions in preventing this kind of behavior. Well if you have the option for a clean nice guy to rape you once a month and he gives you a nice place to live OR 30 smelly std infested people to rape you non stop while you are chained to a tree and barely fed scraps to live... hmmm. In order to protect yourself from the gang rape, obviously some people would choose the one man to protect them.