Analogy of state and housing association

[Anders Hansson]

Hi

 

I live in an apartment in a housing association. Lately I've been thinking about how this association and other associations and clubs work. Let's say that a number people buy a big house together. The one who wants the biggest apartment pays the most. The yard is sort of owned by all members. Some things are difficult to keep track of, like how much water everyone uses, so it's payed for in a common way. Members and their friends have the right to use the yard but it's not for all people. The children of members also have certain rights unlike non members. The association has a bunch of common contracts and other decision making handled by a small group called the board, which is elected with each apartment having one vote.

 

This is almost like a mini state. What if the association is well managed and is able to buy another house. The mini state is growing along with it's rules and political power of the board. This made me a little bit sick when I thought about it. Of course anyone is free to sell their right to an apartment and move but that is what I usually hear from statists when I say that the state is coercive, violent monopoly.

 

What do you think of this?

[AncapFTW]

This breaks down when one person wants to add something, and decided that others should also pay for it.  Then there's the fact that children would be born to those people and wouldn't be a part of the contract.

 

As a free-society alternative, this could be made to work over a small area, but it doesn't really fit the government as it exists today.

[Will Torbald]

You chose to live there. You didn't choose to be born in a world full of states where the only option is to move to another state, not out of them.

[Mister Mister]

That is not how governments come about ever. http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/156/the-social-contract-part-2-facts