&gt;And yes, virtually all the states on that list are significantly poorer and have drastically worse social services than Western Europe.<p>There&#x27;s a big gap between &quot;significantly poorer&quot; and subsistence farmers. As in, an order of magnitude of GDP in many cases from that list (e.g. Russia).<p>&gt;Contrary to propertarian mythology, both the institutions of property and government are imposed by a mixture of force and the likelihood of society being substantially worse off if they didn&#x27;t exist.<p>The difference is that government necessarily involves force, due to requiring involuntary taxation (an entity funded by voluntary donations isn&#x27;t generally considered a government, it&#x27;s considered a charity), while it&#x27;s possible for a group of people to agree to trade together and respect some notion of property (be it the strong capitalist notion of property or the weak anarchist notion of &quot;possessions&quot;) without requiring force.