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Voting is an illusion of choice. You have the choice to use Uber or not, You don't have a choice when it comes to following the law.

How is state not a huge corporation?

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A corporation is an entity designed to take on risk for the benefit of the few.

The state is an entity designed to mitigate risk for the benefit of all, which ends up benefiting the few due to implementation problems

The state is an entity designed to benefit all at the cost of the few, but thanks to the corruption of uneven power, the state ends up benefitting those in power at the cost of those not in power.

But here your problem is not with government but bad government.

I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually. That's why the State should never have the power to do anything that an individual could not justly do.

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

>I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually.

Why?

The balance of power allows government officials to control those outside of government.

Those outside of government have control over government officials as well. Besides it doesn't really answer the question.

Because those in control are inevitably going to become corrupt and use their power to advance their own personal agendas.

> How is state not a huge corporation?

Um. A state is a place that happens to constitute the jurisdiction of its government. A corporation, huge or not, is a legal entity chartered (in the U.S.) by the government of a state (q.v. supra).

What about municipal corporations?

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