New Business Opportunity: Spontaneous Courts

On another list the question of whether a "judge raised up" is government, I went on: I realize government assumes "governor" but I think in terms of a system that keeps it all together, my preferences is for spontaneous order. Obviously a "judge risen up" is a system of government, since it comes out of spontaneous order and it is generally subscribed to... if you don't like it you can leave.

Myself I like to see several competing judges risen up, all coming up with a ruling on a given case. Anyone can be a judge. People pay to see the cases, and the judge with the most popular ruling gets to keep the audience fees as payment, a reward for making popular judgments. And the judges themselves have to put up maybe $100, with winner takes all. And since the judge has an audience, he can risk recommending a certain soap to the masses if he thinks he can get away with it, and get some action from advertisers. I think disputes among neighbors should be far more entertaining, and this would be a way to assure that.

While I am enjoying the effect of caffeine, I recollect it was perhaps the Abyssinians who had a real property tax assessment system superior to ours. Any property owner would declare once a year what his property was worth, and the taxes would be levied on that valuation. And for the year, anyone wishing to buy the property for that value may do so, so all property had a price at any given time. Value too low, you are liable to undersell you property. Value too high, you are liable to pay too much in taxes. You want to hit just the right number, no one buys you out, you ay no extra taxes. What money you presented in taxes defined what you valued your property at.

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