> Why do we have a government instead of just having a workers union? By "instead", do you mean having no government whatsoever? Who'd be responsible for tradi

> Why do we have a government instead of just having a workers union? By "instead", do you mean having no government whatsoever? Who'd be responsible for traditional government responsibilities in that case? (such as police, firefighters, water/sewage, garbage collection, etc.) I don't think unions can take on any of those tasks in any meaningful sense (e.g. do you get 5 firefighter corps from different unions to come to the same fire in an apartment complex?)