Or if that’s too abstract for you, think about how the securities in your vault would fair in the absence of government maintaining basic law and order; honouring and enforcing otherwise fictional property such as copyright, trademarks and patents; some degree of redress in a court system; and some degree of stability of regulation of markets.
So much of the wealth on this planet relies on Governments for it to exist and to persist.
So much of the wealth on this planet relies on Governments for it to exist and to persist.