The system is huge, complex, and has grown ever dependent on itself. It is a house of cards, a lumbering dinosaur, and not nearly as nefarious as some of you think.
+1The government generally isn't bad as in evil, generally its bad as in incompetent.
Problem is, when you have the monopoly on the right to kill, steal and imprison and impoverish, it amounts to about the same thing.
It wants to do the right thing, but usually since that means not doing anything, it gets that part wrong and does something anyhow and poorly.
"...monopoly on the right to kill, steal and imprison and impoverish."
Lol, i take it you'd rather have everyone kill, steal and impoverish? What a wacky, wonderful world that would be!
Soapbox rhetoric aside, governments have pretty lousy monopolies on murder, as anyone on the receiving end of "stand your ground" laws would tell you if the sucker could talk.
Some governments are so bad at killing they don't even kill murderers -- the free market killing entrepreneurs.
Some monopoly
As far as wholesale theft/impoverishment goes, i'd say folks here are doing just fine without any government help. Check the securities subforum.
Money-revolutionary known as DPR tried to do some murdering too, but he botched that up. Oh well, maybe next time
Incompetent and archaic as nation-states may be, they appear to control approximately 100% of this here planet Earth, while neo-anarco-capital-libertarian-whatevers control exactly goose egg.
Go figure.
Looks like we agree then. Despite having the franchised monopoly power on all those, they are incompetent at enforcing it.