No, I am assuming rational self interest in business managers, workers and shareholders. Anarcho-capitalism has virtually no connection to reality because without a unified system of laws a property holder cannot protect his rights, except with the use of violence. In other words, anarcho-anything quickly devolves into gang warfare.
The marketplace can and does run lotteries; but so do state, provincial, federal, national, and supranational governments. Because they are not coerced payments, they are voluntary -- though, maybe here in Ontario, somewhat fraudulent -- there's nothing unethical there.
Regardless of the lottery, the real values of a unified legal system (which only comes about through a government, i.e., an institution dedicated to transparently monopolizing the use of force as a means of extracting it from human relationships) is intellectual property rights protection and civil courts of law. Contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on if there isn't a predictable, unified way to litigate against those who breach contractual obligations. This is why individuals, companies, and every other institution would not be practicing altruism by paying for contract insurance, because it gives them peaceful recourse to settle disputes; and non-violent arbitration is an unquestionable value in the act of operating a business or any other institution. Of course those who feel like you do that they do not need a legal system to enforce obligations set out in contracts, or to protect their inventions from misappropriation would be free to do so in a capitalist society, but the moment they pay a truck driver x amount of money to deliver a load of potatoes to a grocery store, and instead the driver fucks off with both the truck and the merchandise, they will understand the value of the rule of law.
Free Market Capitalism is anything but without the rule of law.
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