Whether you call it mafia, warlordism, kritarchy, private a…

Whether you call it mafia, warlordism, kritarchy, private arbitration, private defence, or some other freshly polished label, the problem remains the same: private enforcement does not scale into liberty.

It scales into rule by whoever can enforce.
That means money, men, weapons, networks, intimidation, retaliation, protection rackets, cartelised courts, bought arbitrators, and private coercive capacity. The public legal order is not perfect, but replacing it with competing private enforcers does not abolish power. It removes the restraint and hands enforcement to whoever can dominate locally.

These people imagine themselves as sovereign market actors in that world. They are not. They are exactly the sort of people who would have no enforcement capacity at all. No army. No court. No police. No territory. No protection network. No capacity to compel performance. No ability to stop a stronger party from rewriting the “contract” at gunpoint.

They think they are designing freedom. They are designing a world in which they become clients, dependants, tribute-payers, or victims.
That is the absurdity. They denounce public law as tyranny, then propose a system where private coercive blocs decide rights by force and call the result voluntary.

That is not civilisation.
That is criminal sanctions with a contract attached.