Anonymous question

Who even handles vaccinations in Ancapistan? Obviously, those who benefit from it. But if everyone around you is vaccinated and you are not, the probability of getting infected turns out to be negligible. This creates a free-rider effect: it is beneficial for each individual not to be vaccinated themselves (no need to spend on the vaccine, no need to deal with side effects), but it is beneficial for everyone that all others are vaccinated. Etatists scare us by claiming that without the benevolent sovereign’s whip, no one will get vaccinated because of this effect.

The most obvious beneficiaries of mass vaccination are insurance companies: people get sick less often, which means lower insurance payouts. Therefore, in our beloved Ancapistan, they are the ones highly interested in stimulating people to get vaccinated. One could simply make vaccination a condition for purchasing a policy, but it is easier to lower the policy price for those who are vaccinated.

As a result, firstly, an economic incentive emerges to create a positive externality for others, and secondly, those who are not vaccinated are the least interested in clustering together. On the contrary, it is in their interest to disperse as evenly as possible to benefit from herd immunity.

In general, problems that are almost always solved under a state using a whip are solved in Ancapistan using a carrot. Switch to our side, we have carrots!