Quite few people live there, and therefore the demand for goods is naturally low. Capital will not flow there because it is not profitable, and schools and hospitals are nowhere to be seen in the village. What is to be done about this?
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Actually, it is precisely in all sorts of “bear corners” (remote backwaters), where there are not only no schools and hospitals, but also no police or tax authorities, that ancap is currently most evident. In these sparsely populated regions, where useful resources are distributed sparsely over a large area, instead of classic land ownership rights, there exists more of a tradition of living off certain lands. Exactly what the small entrepreneur does there is a secondary matter. Maybe they fish, maybe they hunt game, maybe they gather cedar cones. Their subsequent task is to transport and sell the harvest, avoiding all sorts of oversight as much as possible.
Such extensive farming is quite capable of supporting a sparse working population. It is not necessary to live in the harvesting grounds year-round, and even less necessary to live there with a family. In a city or a large settlement, there are the benefits of civilization; therefore, it is more convenient to receive medical treatment, educate children, and surf the internet there. A great deal of material on this topic can be found on the Khamovniki Foundation website.
If we are talking not about hunting and gathering, but about agriculture, then here, again, the population density must be very modest, since with modern means of mechanization, a large village is simply not needed: there would be too little arable land per person. So here too, relatively small settlements make sense, and for the benefits of civilization—one goes to the city. We can see roughly how this looks in the example of the USA, where the land market is quite free and well-developed.
It is not always convenient to turn a farm into a shift settlement where only workers live while families remain in the city. Therefore, of course, situations where full families settle on a farmstead will remain quite common. This will be their own responsible decision, and the market is well capable of providing them with the means to quickly get from their wilderness to civilization. Firstly, products from the fields must be transported out, meaning that roads will not disappear even under ancap. Secondly, in the absence of regulations, light aviation becomes an exclusively cheap and mass-market thing, and here again we can cite the USA as an example, where things stand roughly this way.
