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That's more pure ideological ancap stuff than libertarianism. Sane libertarians understand that they will never have a libertarian country if they don't have a population at least somewhat amicable to their ideas - and most populations in the world aren't. Doubly so the populations that make up...

The "paper" you speak of has traditionally merely represented ownership of goods or real estate. "Shuffling it" does have a purpose, one of making market prices adjust to economic trends quickly and accurately. There certainly is some value in that. Of course for there to be value in that there...

The problem here is that ironically regulation, especially after the bigguns get done doling out their political donations, is something that inherently hurts small businesses more than big ones. After all, for a fraction of a percent of their budget, they can afford hundreds of top lawyers...

The wealthy have employed people to do parts of their managerial work for them since civilization exists. They even used to get fancy titles. The difference is that back then it was their money that paid for them, and it was made absolutely clear who do they work for. That kind of thing is...

The people who are showing any loyalty to the status quo absolutely hate capitalism and are very open about it. The people who openly fanboy for free market capitalism do that in between demanding for 90% of the institutions, organizations and laws that make the cronyism work to be outright...

The things you describe are cases of cronyism more than capitalism, bordering on monopoly abuse - after all, that's what whole industries agreeing to, or otherwise forcing all competitors to sell inferior products at high prices is, and regulatory bodies and media that should be stopping that...