keda wrote:
Regarding anarchism, I think there is something inherently contradictory about it, but I suppose it depends on the exact definition. If there is to be any institution that enforces laws, how is it different from a government?

Equal before the law means impartiality. The law applies equally to everyone. The big problem with a corrupt government is that its laws are usually selectively enforced, so that some, usually those big corporations that bribed it, are allowed monopoly room while small business suffers and are incapable of competing with the big corporations that are above the law.

This is a very serious form of govenment intervention that has lead to the situation we are today. Most people who are poor, that is most people in the world, are poor because they are suppressed from above, not because nobody is helping them. Usually the charity that goes to help them ends up somewhere else. The developement countries are simply not allowed to develope. Real charity involves beating up the big corporations instead of blindly giving money away that will end up in their pockets. This is another problem with the people, that they think throwing money at something will eventually solve it. The thumb rule is that the more money you throw at something, the less likely it is going to be solved, because the vampire bureaucrats come to suck your blood if you don't watch it, and the more money is involved in an organization the more likely it is going get corrupt. The only way can be sure it ends up spent how it should be spent is to take control over the operation yourself. This is also the method how to achieve a free society, namely by taking control over the government. Our time is short, because the gap between the rich and poor is growing fast and at a certain point a revolution will become impossible forever.