>Hoppes9 is just a reference to the eponymous gun cleaner. Ah! Fair enough. There's a german ancap philosopher called Hoppe (the guy who came up with the term "physical removal") so I was surprised a guy named after him seemed to be making anti-market arguments. >I wasn't talking about somebody creating a program of bikes to lend out. I was saying that people could leave bikes around for their neighbors to use in a high trust society. Having some centralized management is going way too far IMHO. Oh ok, I see what you're getting at. I agree that could work on a small scale, although it's still a little tricky since it you could never guarantee your bike (or any bike) would be there when you need it. There are examples of people doing things like that in racially homogenous areas, like those mini lending libraries made out of old phone booths where you just pinkie promise to bring the book back after you're done. Stuff like that works well at a small scale with relatively cheap, non-scarce objects like second hand books. If it's ever going to scale up though or deal with more important things like transport, I think markets and prices are a good way to make it happen.