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That is correct, but strongmen in your example exist exclusively to extract money (the ultimate common denominator in almost all societies) from weaker people/t
by swalkergibson 13y ago
That is correct, but strongmen in your example exist exclusively to extract money (the ultimate common denominator in almost all societies) from weaker people/tribes. That is my position. Without government, you are obligated to pay your own private security force, driving on your own private roads, paying for your own private healthcare. My position is that you would probably pay a similar percentage of your income to provide these services for yourself than if most everybody contributed to a pot of money to provide these services for the greater good.
- rayiner 13y agoI understand, but my point is that without government, you wouldn't have any money to pay for your own private security force. You'd be a peasant, serving some strongman. It's not like Mark Zuckerberg would just hire a private security force and drive on private roads. He wouldn't be wealthy to begin with, because he would have nothing valuable to offer in a such a society.