That's a nice summary and better said than I did it. I don't claim the state is an evolution, just different and impossible to undo once the concept is brought

That's a nice summary and better said than I did it. I don't claim the state is an evolution, just different and impossible to undo once the concept is brought into existence. Think nuclear technology. Nuclear can't be undone either, at least in the knowledge sense and someone striving for weaponry. (No claims on nuclear as good or bad.) European examples do not weaken 2.b. There are still large wealth disparities to be found. For example, don't mix up income equality for wealth equality when considering Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Sweden I don't know enough to make claims about European economic setups.