Somalia is not such off-base comparison. It demonstrate what happens when society disappears. You cannot create wealth in the vacuum, and society isn't just "is", social order has to be maintained so productive part of society can go on and create wealth.

Are you familiar with game theory? If yes, human society cannot exist with pure cooperators, it is just not in human nature to behave in altruistic manner or purely creatively. We can only manage level of exploitators, best we can hope is to keep level down so cooperators can function. As much as I hate defending welfare queens, their contribution to society is not murdering you and me with a machete while we sleep. That what we pay them for, to keep exploitators from outright destructive behavior. We both might not like it, but Somalian alternative is much, much worse.

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