In From Upstate New York to the Horn of Africa, by Spencer Heath MacCallum, Liberty magazine, May 2005, page 33; Spencer Heath MacCallum says societies should be organized like a hotel, where there is an owner who provides services in exchange for fees. Hotels can provide any services and charge any fees they want. If customers do not like the services or fees of one hotel, the customers can go to a different hotel instead.

Spencer Heath MacCallum also thinks that communities should have owners who can buy and sell communities just like buying and selling anything else. Well run communities would be worth more than poorly run communities. The owner of the community would have an incentive to make sure the community was well run so that the owner could sell the community for as much money as possible. There would be entrepreneurs who would buy badly run communities cheaply, fix the communities, and then sell the communities for a higher price. This is different from a system where communities have elected governments, where some voters and special interests have an incentive to prevent the community from being well run.

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