The point of generalities is to be able to reason about things too complicated to fully describe. Whether or not you think a specific generalization, framing, o

The point of generalities is to be able to reason about things too complicated to fully describe. Whether or not you think a specific generalization, framing, or model is a good or useful one is completely up for debate. Denouncing the idea of generalities doesn't give any room to reason about anything complicated. Saying something is too complicated and varied to reason about is an indictment against all of science. Reality is fractally complicated yet we still manage. Physics is an approximation of reality. Chemisty is an approximation of physics. Biology is an approximation of chemistry. No model is perfect. In my opinion, understanding government as a monopoly in the business of violence provides a useful framework. 1. It's generalizable. Monopolizing violence over its citizens is the common factor between every government. From North Korea to China to the US to Norway, all governments maintain the absolute and unrivaled power to exert violence over their citizens. I cannot personally find any counterexample. 2. We can apply existing research. Modeling governments as businesses in a specific industry enables to use research about how markets and businesses work. This whole post is essentially an argument to change macroeconomic modeling. Instead of treating the government as some separate special entity, we can simply existing macroeconomics models by treating the government as yet another business. 3. It's simple.