US gov shutdown is life-or-death for some cancer patients, including children

I guess you have to look at all of the spontaneous order you see around you every day. From people pushing a car out of a ditch to companies that cooperate to set up supply chains. It happens all around you without central control.
I understand the argument for central control but I don’t see the kind of evidence for it being needed. Whereas I see people peacefully interacting without a central power everywhere.

Well that’s an assertion :smile: but there just as many bad apples now as there would be in a non-hierarchical system. Not to slam this site but it seems there’s much advocacy for non-hierarchical systems and novel hierarchies for private systems, why is government special? My take is that government isn’t different and special, it’s just another entity made up of individuals with the same failings as everyone else. The problem is it’s an entity that is the ultimate monopoly.

As I wrote above, they’re here now. My guess is that many of them gravitate towards government work/office. I’d rather they were in a business I could choose not to use than a government who will destroy anyone who tries to make big changes let alone dissolve it.

Libertarian and anarchy are anything but a free-for-all. Spontaneous order is how markets work, how people interact, etc. In my mind government is a solution without a problem.