How do libertarians view the power transfer that would occur with a change to a smaller government?

Do libertarians accept that a change to a smaller government would create a power vacuum

This is speculative and subjective. I pretty much categorically deny it.

Although I agree that "power" is technically finite, Your post implies that the "power" over an individual will still exist within a system.

That power could just as easily reside within the individual.

To say that once government is gone power will "trickle up" and leave the individual, is simply a lack of understanding of the ideology.

If we are going to use power as a variable in a Libertarian ideology. Then it would simply be money. Or a palpable and physical representation of human exerted energy.

So the more money you have, the more power you have. Basically without "government" to control you, people with money will now control you with their stored energy.

How? How could, and how would that happen? With a 100% voluntary transfer and exchange of money and energy (power) how would power be lost from an individual?

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