All states fail, for pretty obvious reasons. At the same time, at scale, we need some level of governance. I don't know about you, but I don't think the wild west was such a beautiful way to live.
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All states fail, for pretty obvious reasons. At the same time, at scale, we need some level of governance. I don't know about you, but I don't think the wild west was such a beautiful way to live.
The Wild West was not like Hollywood portrays it, and besides, the worst outcomes were a consequence of government: wars with the natives to take their land by force, corrupt territorial governors enriching themselves, business magnates with the power to call in favors from the previous 2...
Further, governance and government are wholly different ideas. The latter is a group of people who claim a territorial monopoly in violence, and enforce their opinions upon everyone else. The former is a voluntary association for mutual benefit and dispute resolutoon. Government masquerades as governance, but fails.