Troubleshooting chart

Issues encountered

Operational Cause(s)

Underlying/ Root cause(s):

Countermeasure(s)

Walls around private land and buildings are partially destroyed, vandalized and smeared with ugly graffiti and silly left-revolutionary slogans

No risk of punishment for the violation of property rights

Poor to none enforcement of property rights as a disguised form to implement/ stimulate collectivism

To legally enforce and/ or restore property rights

To provide efficient (private) police to ensure enforcement

Vandalizing the other’s property deemed justifiable by the “class struggle” and similar fallacies

Anticapitalistic mentality instilled by public school and mainstream media

To abolish public school and indoctrination

To implement private education and instill the non-aggression principle

Peddlers wandering all over, aggressively asking for money and disturbing the passers-by (a.k.a. taxpayers)

General impoverishment due to taxing, inflation, regulation and restrictions to the free market

Central banking policies and issuing of fiat money

To abolish central banking

To adopt “hard” money standard

Internal and external trade restrictions

To abolish trade restrictions

High taxes throughout all the economy

To abolish taxes

Massive rural migration into the cities

Heavy sales taxing on agricultural products

To abolish taxes

Lack of incentive to agricultural economic activities

To deregulate agriculture business

Price controls and subsidies

To abolish price controls and subsidies

Lack of credit for investment

To abolish government planning and control of agricultural credit and transfer the credit function to the free market banking sector

High unemployment within the less schooled groups

Increasing illiteracy, poor education

To abolish public school

To implement private education

Unionizing, licensing, regulation

To abolish compulsory unionizing, to deregulate the labor market

Easy living on charity rather than struggling for life with a low-pay job

High indirect costs for potential employers to hire low-qualification workers

To abolish welfare system and high associated labor costs

Minimum wages preventing employers from hiring low-qualification workers at wages higher than their marginal productive capacity

To abolish minimum wage laws

Loss of self-esteem and human dignity

Dehumanization and devoiding of the human status through the rejection of moral values and deconstruction of family, while glorifying the State as a substitute with respect to family as a  nucleus of society

Hmmm, difficult one…

My personal opinion: to stop State indoctrination which destroys  family values and to stop inhibiting the potential, voluntary  use of religion (within each belief group) as moral inspiration for the individual recovery

Massive propaganda on the “evils” of capitalism and the “human right” to live at the other’s expenses

To abolish public school and state indoctrination

To implement private education and propagate the basics of free-market economics

Streets full of potholes, cracks

Poor street maintenance owing to inefficient public street management

Corruption in public services

To deregulate and privatize street management

Lack of incentives to work efficiently (stability of public jobs)

Lack of price incentive and competition

Water and sewage leaks on the streets and sidewalks; mix-up of rainwater drainage and sewer systems

Poor installation and maintenance of water, drainage and sewer systems owing to inefficient public management

Corruption in public services

To deregulate and privatize water, drainage and sewer services

Lack of incentives to work  efficiently (stability of public jobs)

Lack of price incentive and competition

Proliferation of “favelas” (lumberyards)

Chronic urban housing deficit

Zoning laws and building restrictions

To abolish zoning laws and restrictions

Environmental protection areas established to ensure privileges for interest groups

To abolish environmental regulations and to establish property rights on the “commons”

Lack of incentive for investment in housing

To deregulate housing and mortgage systems

Lack of credit due to excessively high mortgage rates

Traffic jams throughout the whole urban area

Insufficient/ inappropriate traffic ways (streets, tunnels etc.)

State monopoly on these resources

To abolish State monopoly and enable private investment on traffic ways

Poor collective transportation means (bus, subway)

Low incentive for businesses to invest in transportation due to State regulation, price control, concessions etc.

To abolish State licensing and to deregulate concessions, routes and all other parameters, and to allow for competition between service providers

High cost of taxis/ car services

Heavy taxing, unionizing and State licensing and legislation to operate  the service

Excess of vehicles with respect to the available resources

Low incentive for car users to prefer other transportation means

To improve alternative transportation means as stated on the previous items

To be expanded “ad libitum”