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Without government how are property rights enforced?
How do I defend my land and assets from those who would seek to take it from me?

Without government it is the law of the jungle- the strongest can seize property from the weakest with impunity.

Government recognises this and puts itself in place as the strongest entity but where it is well operated it can and dose protect property rights in such way that wealth security and prosperity can develop.

Government is a natural role that has evolved from the nature of humans as humans are weak and greedy as individuals but can achieve much greater strength as a group.
Of course there are trade offs with government but overall it has proven an essential part of any human community.

You ascribe only bad attributes to government but in fact it is a human construct and is made up of humans and so is variable in quality just like humans.

Not all government is bad.
There has only ever been sustained wealth and prosperity where there is good government. We need to fight for it and not completely give up on the entire thing because without good government we are more or less fucked.

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lol yeah right.
You need to read some basic economic theory to start getting an idea of reality.
Adam Smith is a good place to start.

‘People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices’.

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No, without government there would be no way to reduce cartels duopolies and monopolies- we would be ruled by corporations. Which is what is happening in the USA today with the government largely owned by its corporate sponsors. Crony capitalism is not ideal- it makes your USA inefficient and very likely to lose against the mercantile determination of China. Enjoy your coming 100 years of humiliation as a consequence of abandoning the mixed economy features such as robust anti trust laws and your stupid Libertarian free market fixes all nonsense which left you with no rare earths and militarily hostage to China.

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Wrong - Smith clearly indicates cartels are a problem and that governments should and can act against them.

God is long dead . . . He was used by the state for millennia and you still appeal to him for authority - oh dear.

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Plus federalism

We have functional states vs dysfunctional states

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Then why don't you go live somewhere there is little or no government?
You don't because you are a Hypocrit.

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You depend on the government to allow bitcoin.
Statist lapdog!

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There have always been murderous sociopaths- getting rid of governments will not change that.
It will just give them more scope.
We have learned that much surely.
Mao was responsible for much that may be viewed through western eyes as wrong, but so can Napoleon, or Stalin, or many of the US Opium Traders who profited from the Opium Trade and even Queen Victoria who refused to act against it.
There have always been sociopaths but removing government will not fix that.

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