Such economic pressure is no more coercion than are the hunger pangs that remind you you need to eat. Coercion requires intent, so a natural system cannot be coercive.
This is my main qualm with the ancaps - they think that freedom necessarily brings out the best in people. Go live on the south side of Chicago! There are no cops! Ancap paradise!
Well, tell all the people from there that've been imprisoned that there are no cops. If it was entirely Ancap, then people could organize, arm & protect themselves. Law prevents that.
As soon as the wall is finished the Chicago murder rate will drop by 3/4+ because the drug lords will have no use for the gangs. Hopefully Rahm will be in chains by then too.
For sure this is true. Actually I'm from the burbs so I'm pretty familiar with the situation. Chicago is a massive crossroads but they need a police free zone to do all the trafficking
What is missing there and in your own understanding of liberty is that natural law exists and consequences follow breaking natural law. So in order to achieve harmony with liberty:duty