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Originally Posted by tore
Very generally speaking; if anarchy really had any competitive advantage, then anarchy would thrive today. Because it's not very competitive, in an anarchic environment, forms of "government" would emerge that are more competitive than anarchy, for example because they better facilitate cooperation between people or protect people from exploiters which would otherwise tax the whole of the population. So basically, anarchy is unstable and, hence, temporary.
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Yes. That's one of the main points Nozick makes in "Anarchy, state and utopia". In the long run, the emergence of a single jurisdictional instance (i.e. a minimal state) is inevitable.