<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy </p>
<p>No one boycotted Standard Oil or Carnegie Steel when they were mistreating their employees. Revolts were met with privately hired armed forces. There were numerous deaths, and only when both Carnegie and Rockefeller were really old did the government step in.</p>
<p>Yes a company’s goal is profit, and therefore if they see the chance to hire mercenaries to rob another company and make a profit, why not?</p>
<p>By the way, a state can still exist without a monopoly over the initiation of violence. A state is simply a governing body. Revolutionaries during America’s founding and their idols brought the idea of a state’s job is protection. For example, Switzerland exists without participating in or initiating wars or conflict, in recent decades.</p>
<p>If you have a free market without a state enforcing patents, then all creative markets will collapse. In fact, in today’s technological world, many other companies would also collapse, although probably not whole markets.</p>
<p>Your words are becoming condescending (the definition and your assuming my lack of knowledge). I assure you I know exactly what I’m talking about and if you phrase anything like “That is literally what a state is,” then I will assume you, and not I, should be the one asking questions. If you’ll continue nicely, please respond to my list of rebuttals above.</p>
<p>(If you didn’t get that, I’m saying I’m getting pissed at your comment. Don’t make me pissed at you.)</p>