My Response to Murf’s “True tests of libertarian thinking on the horizon”

I want to first say I have had experience in the food service industry for many years. I still interact with it everyday but now from a transportation aspect. I have experience as a grill cook, prep cook, dishwasher, shift lead for a qsr, warehouse stockroom, and transportation in the food service industry. My grandfather ran a restaurant from 1949 until his death in 2009 that restaurant kept operating until the “covid shutdown” forced it out of business. All of us had experience in it since childhood.

With that I will respond to Murf. I know first hand from working in a chain restaurant that was wholly corporate owned that they had a third party food safety contractor go around from store to store that did spot safety inspections, so that point is already dead. Their logic for that company was their brand had higher standards than what was your “standard food inspection.” Things may have changed since then it’s been over 10 years and that company is struggling. The main point I want to make is this, if a company wants to look good they will be open for random inspection from private companies. You know all it takes sometimes is one bad review to go viral to make serious changes or face going out of business.

For the child safety seat question I think there shouldn’t be any law on that and I will go further and say mandatory car insurance is also a racket for insurance companies to raise their rates consistently and you have to have it or you lose your car. Look at New Hampshire here in America they have no seat belt law for adults.

Also Murf and this is only applicable here in America but the federal government through “highway funds” dictates so much to the states like the 21 drinking age, child seat laws, seat belt laws, helmet laws, speed limits, etc., it is to keep the states “in check” because they will do whatever they can to keep that money. Only a few hold outs still exist here and there but it also applies to many other monies besides highway funding. But that is not the topic this time.

I will say that Liberland DAO’s could work in similar fashion like say a safety inspection company finds a critical safety issue that requires the company close until the issue is resolved, you could have a clause in the contract that the two companies signed that gives the safety inspection company authority to declare the business must close if any of X reasons are found to be occurring and necessitate the business close until said issues are resolved.

You might argue why would a company do such a thing well for one their insurance company could require it under their terms for coverage to be valid, a guild or trade group that the company is with could require it to maintain membership and if they lose that status they could lose significant business or the private marketplace uses its soft pressure to make them have to get the seal of approval because they may lose business otherwise.

A real life example could that the Better Business Bureau or the NFIB requires safety inspections for membership. You fill in the blank on the trade organization but I could see that being a real possibility if you were to get government out of the way on those areas.