Government.
As far as I know, in power theory there are two main groups: government and subjects. We, subjects of the government, work and pay taxes to the government so it can direct it to their objectives; which can benefit you or not.
This raises the first question: if a government, even if it's chosen democratically, acts against the will of the people; do they have the right to keep going on? For example, in my country they approved a strong pro-abortion law being the 70% of the population Catholic, who made several demonstrations.
Secondly, there's the direction question. See, in any community (family, syndicate, cultural association,...) people join their efforts to reach a certain ends (like feed their sons, protect the workers or share their knowledge; respectively). If we put a common government to all this communities, this would have to care about trying to satisfy all their needs to reach their ends; but we know governments are not perfect, and people in there are rather to make vague and common laws rather than providing what every subject needs.
So is it fair to put a common government to a large population?
And lastly, every single person has a very basic needs (food, water, home and health system) which are absolutely undeniable. Should the governments provide a basic level of those for free? I'm not meaning that "We're giving your stuff without working", but rather making a common fund to provide these to people whose salary is extremely low.
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