She just described one of the main benefits of having a state. It allows people to flourish. Of course, excluding obvious scenarios of nefarious uses of public

She just described one of the main benefits of having a state. It allows people to flourish. Of course, excluding obvious scenarios of nefarious uses of public money for personal profit. The state creates an environment that allows individuals to make profit in a safe way (contracts, violence, laws, etc). An underlying bit of information that is ignored is that the individual profiting means that we all profit, in small and not necessarily measurable ways. And sure why not, why can't the public be the one to bear the risk in the examples stated? It does for everything else. Isn't this the "collective" way? And I have seen this line of thinking elsewhere, particularly when discussing the merits of having a state at all. The idea that somehow we "owe" the state for all these nice things it gives us beyond what we already pay in personal taxes. "Go live in Somalia", they would tell me, if you don't like paying taxes.