Ed wrote:

> People have long been trained and educated without the need for a
> government.

You can homeschool your kids today. Now try to let them out into society
without recognized qualifications such as a GED or diploma and see how well
they do. How large do you see some commune of people with specialized roles
(it just so happens that all necessary products and services are able to be
provided) getting before it needs to be governed?

> > Labor laws also apply to him so people don't do such as pay him less than
> > minimum wage, or work him unreasonably long or hard.
>
> No, they don't apply to him. He is a contractor. He places a bid on a
> particular job and hopes that he's managed to win a contract to do a
> specified job for a specified amount. If it works out that a job takes ten
> times longer than he thought, and this ends up paying less than a minimum
> wage (is there a minimum wage in Japan?),

660 an hour before my son was born.

> then perhaps he'll learn from his mistake.
>
> > > There would be no national highway system in EdWorld. There would,
> however,
> > > be a rather extensive system of roads based on the German autobahn.
> >
> > Good. And if you can find private companies to build them all, who would
> pay
> > for the system and how is it organized or standardized?
>
> Whoever wants the damned thing built would pay.

Who can afford it without the government? How would it be built and maintained
in uneconomical areas (similar to how rural farmhouses were wired for
electricity in the US)? Even Bill Gates wouldn't have been Bill Gates without
the infrastructure at the time already in place.

> Why should people believe that US currency is worth more than toilet paper?

Because it has the US government behind it, the same reason the Japanese and
others will continue to buy 30 year US Bonds, not EdShekel futures.