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>>6052327
>How do you think the issues of crime and poverty would change if the state were to suddenly leave?
It would catastrophic for our economy, all of our money is state backed, everyone would become instantly broke until a new currency got up and running. I can't begin to envision what would happen when food distribution and utilities widely shut down.

>*more culturally unified societies were able to function with a VASTLY smaller state without falling into a state of barbarism and anarchy*
Yes, but they were pre-industrial and based on the same families working the land for generations and all knowing each other. There wasn't nearly as much skill specialization, the family worked with the family and all the families knew each other. Unless you have some sort of system where every business is owned by a particular family and staffed almost entirely by that family, I don't see how that could work anymore.

>The societies in the 1600s were still much more urbanized than those that had been seen and extremely importantly people were managing without a welfare state for nearly 200 years after the industrial revolution took place and continued to do so primarily until the depression and post war period.
Things started to get really shitty then. That's why highwaymen and pirates started becoming folk heroes.