<i>How about we all try getting rich (or just keep our wealth out of violent neighboring hands) without violence or a government.</i><p>There&#x27;s a pretty broad range of what you could call &quot;government&quot; in that discussion.  The question of how to reign in would be aggressors isn&#x27;t fully settled, but it certainly hasn&#x27;t been proven that it takes the kind of government we have today.  Especially given that the system we have today <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> stop aggression, it just shuffles it around and renames it.  See, for example, &quot;civil forfeiture&quot;.