Make that 100% of the American (or really any state&#x27;s) public. Do you think your life would just go on without any troubles at all if government suddenly disappeared?<p>I guess what I&#x27;m trying to say is that <i>everybody</i>[0] depends on the social structures around them (which includes the government). It&#x27;s just that for whatever reasons, often pretty arbitrary ones, there is a consensus narrative which labels some of those dependencies as &quot;bad&quot; and others as &quot;good&quot; (or &quot;normal&quot;). Then people invent lots of after-the-fact rationalizations and categories to try to ignore the &quot;good&quot; dependencies and focus only on the &quot;bad&quot; ones.<p>[0] There may be some persons out in the woods who live in a cabin they built using their bare hands, with only the tools that they built themselves, without using oil-based fuels or something like the weather forecast. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s safe to ignore those persons for the purpose of this discussion, if they even exist.