> Arguably you don't own land, ... Keeping X requires constant resources to defend X that scale with the value of X due to competition for X. Governments (amon

> Arguably you don't own land, ... Keeping X requires constant resources to defend X that scale with the value of X due to competition for X. Governments (among other things) are for collective security and efficient defence of your X. Thus by ongoing support of your ownership of X a government grants you an ongoing service which you pay for via taxes. Without a state you must directly pay costs / use resources to prevent someone else who wants your X from taking it. In nature ownership does not exist. Any being that is able to can consume what they are able from another. In nature energy is constantly spent on this for yourself and trying to prevent this happening to yourself. Governments evolve for mutual benefit of their constituents much like multicellular organisms evolve for mutual benefit of their constituent cells . > No wonder our society is dividing into people who own nothing and pay nothing and people who own everything and do everything they can to pay nothing. Notice in your body certain cells seem to get a better deal than others? Why is that? Could it be objective proof that collectives that treat members equally are by evolutionary competition not as viable and those that do not? Yes! The evolutionary stable strategy seems to be to grant benefits to constituents just better than their next best viable option. This of course is only necessary but not sufficient.