Oddbean new post about login | logout It doesn't need to be there a government to run things, every service a govt does can be done by private companies. Plus on principle democracy implies forced socialization and theft by taxation on some level. I prefer a voluntary association of individuals with real private property.
The wild part about preferences like ours is the asymmetry between voluntaryists and statists/collectivists. We say "we'll leave you alone to do your collectivist thing, can you just leave us alone so we can do this voluntary thing?" And they say, "No, we need you in the collective or else it doesn't work, you are our hostage."