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Why are governments created?
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Matt Westwood
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Answered 6 years ago · Author has 1.6K answers and 1.4M answer views
Because some people seem to have a psychological need to be told what to do, and others have a psychopathic urge to tell other people what to do. A fortunate side-effect of this is that stuff that needs to get done (like: roads getting built and maintained, healthcare being provided for, law and order being kept) gets done. 1.1K views
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David Argall
Answered 3 years ago · Author has 7.1K answers and 730.1K answer views
Originally Answered: Why were governments formed? So the great and powerful could take more loot from the rest of us. In the days of the hunter-gatherer, you couldn’t steal much more than you could carry, and the little guy didn’t have that much anyway. But as agriculture came in, not only was there more loot, but it stayed in one place enough so you could steal more. and you could profitably use assistant thieves to steal more