Comments by "cosmosofinfinity" (@cosmosofinfinity) on "Sam u0026 Emma DISMANTLE Libertarian Anarcho-Capitalist's Entire Ideology" video.
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The world that we live in currently is the end result of anarchy. And anarchy saw fit to create government. Pre-government, there was anarchy. Then there was government, and reforms of government, but never has anyone seen any benefit from getting rid of government after it had been made, since reverting to anarchy would not give additional benefit, only take away that which the government brought, which despite its flaws has made life easier and simpler in general by having an organization made by the people to have tasks allocated to them which lifts the burdens from all ordinary people. Power naturally consolidates, it's just a matter of if that power serves all people or just some favored people. Going back to anarchy is to go back to undoing all the consensus that has been built up and revert it back to infinite "that's just your opinion, man" from all sides down to the every-single-individual level and make life infinitely more complicated all over again, with everybody out on their own and no one incentivized to help each other since that would put themselves personally at risk as an individual.
The government helps all people without putting particular individuals at risk, that is the government's own self-interest in preserving order and fulfilling the wishes of the people (people in government ALSO being of the people). Our government doesn't conscript/force people to take IRA jobs or join the military to replenish its forces, it relies on individuals choosing for themselves to take that job as representative, as a fraction of individuals representing the whole. You can have individuals organized, but that's what the government in a democracy already is, organized individuals toward a common purpose. It's then just a matter of how efficiently it's organized and represents/carries out the will of the people. You just keep tweaking the machine. Breaking the machine will just reverse us back to a time where we once again need to build a machine, to organize all this. A country that fragments into states, states that fragment into counties, counties that fragment into cities, cites that fragment into streets, and with no cohesion anymore. North Texas using a different currency from south Texas. This guy advocates dissolving the big corporation of the government just so that it can be free real estate for all the little corporations to wage turf wars, which just turns America's relationship with corporations like Mexico's relationship with cartels (which they are subject to by not having a government strong enough to oppose them; them being a minority of private interests, the 25% this guy thinks would never take power in his world).
He admits that Amazon wouldn't profit from fixing Jackson, Mississippi's water, but the governmental institution of AMERICA would, as a sort of corporation whose self-interests is to make sure all its cities have working water, which it DOES do with literally other city. You've got Flint, Michigan too, but that's 2 cities out of the countless cities in one of the biggest countries by landmass on Earth. Pretty good failure rate, considering as comparison to his system which has 100% failure rate, since it doesn't/can't/won't even exist in the first place to serve even a single person (unless he wants to establish his own island and see how long it lasts, which of course he won't because it would mean he as an unpopular ordinary individual has to take on all that risk by himself and knows that it won't be a success, by its own merits or at all)
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